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Cultural narratives : textuality and performance in American culture before 1900 / edited by Sandra M. Gustafson and Caroline F. Sloat.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media--United States--History.
- Mass media.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (416 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of essays debates how written printed, visual, and performed works produced meaning and a multimedia culture in America before 1900.
- Contents:
- ""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""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780268080617
- 0268080615
- OCLC:
- 694144513
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