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02626aam a2200385 i 4500 001 5969608E74A711EA8EBE956E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200402010032 008 190624s2020 maua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019020027 020 $a 162534452X 020 $a 9781625344526 020 $a 1625344538 020 $a 9781625344533 035 $a (OCoLC)1101027168 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCA $d BMU $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS74 G67 2020 100 1 $a Gordon, Adam, $d 1981- $e author. 245 10 $a Prophets, publicists, and parasites : $b antebellum print culture and the rise of the critic / $c Adam Gordon. 246 30 $a Antebellum print culture and the rise of the critic 264 1 $a Amherst and Boston : $b University of Masschusetts Press, $c [2020] 300 $a x, 338 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Print culture expanded significantly in the nineteenth century due to new print technologies and more efficient distribution methods, providing literary critics, who were alternately celebrated and reviled, with an ever-increasing number of venues to publish their work. Adam Gordon embraces the multiplicity of critique in the period from 1830 to 1860 by exploring the critical forms that emerged. Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites is organized around these sometimes chaotic and often generative forms and their most famous practitioners: Edgar Allan Poe and the magazine review; Ralph Waldo Emerson and the quarterly essay; Rufus Wilmot Griswold and the literary anthology; Margaret Fuller and the newspaper book review; and Frederick Douglass's editorial repurposing of criticism from other sources. Revealing the many and frequently competing uses of criticism beyond evaluation and aesthetics, this insightful study offers a new vision of antebellum criticism, a new model of critical history, and a powerful argument for the centrality of literary criticism to modern life"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Criticism $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a American literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Book industries and trade $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Publishers and publishing $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Books and reading $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200505014711.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5969608E74A711EA8EBE956E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search