The Prose Writers of America


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Prose Writers of America


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The Prose Writers of America


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Excerpt from The Prose Writers of America: With a Survey of the Intellectual History, Condition, and Prospects of the Country Since the last revision of this work by Dr. Griswold, many authors who were then making their fame have added unfading lustre to their names and to the cause of American Literature; some of whom, such as Irving, Cooper, Paulding, Kennedy, Prescott, Willis, Halleck, have since deceased, while others are enjoying their well-earned laurels. Others, who were at that time neophytes in literature, have produced works which are entitled to an honorable mention in the list of the Prose Writers of America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




The Prose Writers of America


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The Rise of New Media 1750–1850


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This monograph explores transatlantic literary culture by tracing the proliferation of ‘new media,’ such as the anthology, the literary history and the magazine, in the period between 1750 and 1850. The fast-paced media landscape out of which these publishing genres developed produced the need of a ‘memory of literature’ and a concomitant rhetoric of remembering strikingly similar to what today is called a cultural memory debate. Thus, rather than depicting the emergence of an American national literature, The Rise of New Media(1750–1850) combines impulses from media history, the history of print, the sociology of literature and canon theory to uncover nascent forms and genres of literary self-reflectivity and early stirrings of a canon debate in the Atlantic World.