LEADER 02896nam 22005175 450 001 9910272351603321 005 20210405134821.0 010 $a1-5017-2618-8 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501726187 035 $a(CKB)4100000004240070 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5319948 035 $a(DE-B1597)503426 035 $a(OCoLC)1048922764 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501726187 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004240070 100 $a20190615d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aNovels, Readers, and Reviewers $eResponses to Fiction in Antebellum America /$fNina Baym 210 1$aIthaca, NY :$cCornell University Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ1987 215 $a1 online resource (288 pages) 311 $a1-5017-2776-1 311 $a0-8014-1709-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$t1. Introduction --$t2 . The Triumph Of The Novel --$t3 . Novel Readers And Novel Reading --$t4. Plot, The Formal Principle --$t5 . Character --$t6. Aspects Of Narration --$t7 . Aspects Of The Narrator --$t8 . The Novel As A Picture Of Nature --$t9. Morality And Moral Tendency --$t10.Classes Of Novels --$t11.Romances, Historical Novels, National Novels --$t12.Authors --$t13.Conclusion --$tBibliographical Note --$tIndex 330 $aThis book describes and characterizes responses of American readers to fiction in the generation before the Civil War. It is based on close examination of the reviews of all novels-both American and European-that appeared in major American periodicals during the years 1840-1860, a period in which magazines, novels, and novel reviews all proliferated. Nina Baym makes uses of the reviews to gain information about the formal, aesthetic, and moral expectations of reviewers. Her major conclusion is that the accepted view about the American novel before the Civil War-the view that the atmosphere in America was hostile to fiction-is a myth. There is compelling evidence, she shows, for the existence of a veritable novel industry and, concomitantly, a vast audience for fiction in the 1840s and 1850s. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCriticism$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aBook reviewing$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aBooks and reading$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCriticism$xHistory 615 0$aBook reviewing$xHistory 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 676 $a813/.3/09 700 $aBaym$b Nina$01186587 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910272351603321 996 $aNovels, Readers, and Reviewers$92804497 997 $aUNINA