LEADER 03443nam 2200541 450 001 9910807320803321 005 20230207222048.0 010 $a0-19-772589-9 010 $a0-19-993052-X 010 $a0-19-028743-8 035 $a(CKB)4330000000043175 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2012747 035 $a(OCoLC)191038443 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5746811 035 $a(EXLCZ)994330000000043175 100 $a20190717d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRevolution and the word $ethe rise of the novel in America /$fCathy N. Davidson 205 $aExpanded edition. 210 1$aOxford :$cOxford University Press,$d[2004] 210 4$dİ2004 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 458 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a0-19-514823-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [367]-442) and index. 330 $aRevolution 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. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSocial history in literature 606 $aAmerican fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783$xLiterature and the revolution 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$y1783-1865 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSocial history in literature. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society 676 $a810.9358 700 $aDavidson$b Cathy N.$f1949-$0960885 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807320803321 996 $aRevolution and the word$94029981 997 $aUNINA