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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458377803321

Titolo

Cultural narratives [[electronic resource] ] : textuality and performance in American culture before 1900 / / edited by Sandra M. Gustafson and Caroline F. Sloat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010

ISBN

0-268-08061-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (416 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GustafsonSandra M

SloatCaroline

Disciplina

302.23/0973

Soggetti

Mass media - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Hand Piety;  or, Operating a Book in Early New England""; ""Poor Performance""; ""Addressing Maps in British America""; ""Print, Manuscript, and Staged Performance""; ""From Performance to Print in the Native Northeast""; ""Beyond the Printed Word""; ""Sarah Wentworth Morton and Changing Models of Authorship""; ""The Path of a Play Script""; """The Speaking Eye and the Listening Ear"""; ""Print Poetry as Oral "Event" in Nineteenth-Century American Periodicals""; ""Silenced Women and Silent Language in Early Abolitionist Serials""; ""Straddling the Color Line""

""Secret in Altered Lines""""The State between Orality and Textuality""; ""Authentic Revisions""; ""Reading the Image""; ""The Emerging Media of Early America""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""