Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America

by Cathy N. Davidson

Book Overview

Revolution and the Word is the classic study of the co-emergence of the U.S. nation and the new literary genre of the novel. The book remains the foundational study of reading, writing, and publishing in the new republic and provides a unique glimpse of the culture of early America. By looking at everything from publishers' account books to marginalia scrawled in eighteenth-century books to the novels themselves, Revolution and the Word provides an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195148231
• ISBN13: 9780195148237
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 458 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"