03443nam 2200541 450 991080732080332120230207222048.00-19-772589-90-19-993052-X0-19-028743-8(CKB)4330000000043175(Au-PeEL)EBL2012747(OCoLC)191038443(MiAaPQ)EBC5746811(EXLCZ)99433000000004317520190717d2004 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRevolution and the word the rise of the novel in America /Cathy N. DavidsonExpanded edition.Oxford :Oxford University Press,[2004]©20041 online resource (xv, 458 pages) illustrations0-19-514823-1 Includes bibliographical references (pages [367]-442) and index.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 engaging social history of early American readership that is also informed by the most insightful aspects of literary theory. With a backward glance at the culture wars and prognostications for what lies ahead, the comprehensive introduction of this expanded edition reframes Revolution and the Word for a new generation of scholars. It revisits topics of dissent in the early national period, the status of the Constitution as a document designed to quell the still-burning passions of the American Revolution, and the role played by the novel in publicizing and articulating complex desires not addressed at the Constitutional Convention. Cathy N. Davidson provides readers with a survey and critique of the controversial and productive thought in cultural, social, and political theory as it has evolved during the last twenty years. This astute and learned assessment of recent developments in literary and historical scholarship, colonial and postcolonial studies, race theory, gender and sexuality theory, class studies, cultural studies, and history of the book will make Revolution and the Word as urgent for this generation as it was for its original readers in 1986.American fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismSocial history in literatureAmerican fiction18th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and societyUnited StatesUnited StatesHistoryRevolution, 1775-1783Literature and the revolutionUnited StatesCivilization1783-1865American fictionHistory and criticism.Social history in literature.American fictionHistory and criticism.Literature and society810.9358Davidson Cathy N.1949-960885MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807320803321Revolution and the word4029981UNINA