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02986aam a22004458i 4500 001 CCCA52D0586511EA978CCE3397128E48 003 SILO 005 20200226010029 008 190905t20202020maua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019019891 020 $a 1625344740 020 $a 9781625344748 020 $a 1625344732 020 $a 9781625344731 035 $a (OCoLC)1101040819 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d GZM $d YDX $d OCLCO $d CUV $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS169.P34 $b S46 2020 082 00 $a 676.0973 $2 23 100 1 $a Senchyne, Jonathan, $e author. 245 14 $a The intimacy of paper in early and nineteenth-century American literature / $c Jonathan Senchyne. 263 $a 2001 264 1 $a Amherst : $b University of Massachusetts Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xiv, 194 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 490 1 $a Studies in print culture and the history of the book 520 $a "The true scale of paper production in America from 1690 through the end of the nineteenth century was staggering, with a range of parties participating in different ways, from farmers growing flax to textile workers weaving cloth and from housewives saving rags to peddlers collecting them. Making a bold case for the importance of printing and paper technology in the study of early American literature, Jonathan Senchyne presents archival evidence of the effects of this very visible process on American writers, such as Anne Bradstreet, Herman Melville, Lydia Sigourney, William Wells Brown, and other lesser-known figures. The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature reveals that book history and literary studies are mutually constitutive and proposes a new literary periodization based on materiality and paper production. In unpacking this history and connecting it to cultural and literary representations, Senchyne also explores how the textuality of paper has been used to make social and political claims about gender, labor, and race"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Chapter 1: Paper Publics and Material Textual Affiliations in American Print Culture -- Chapter 2: The Gender of Rag Paper in Anne Bradstreet and Lydia Sigourney -- Chapter 3: The Ineffable Socialities of Rags in Henry David Thoreau and Herman Melville -- Chapter 4: The Whiteness of the Page: Racial Legibility and Authenticity. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Paper in literature. 650 0 $a Papermaking $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Books $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a Printing $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a Paper industry $x History. $x History. 830 0 $a Studies in print culture and the history of the book. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317014553.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210304011952.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CCCA52D0586511EA978CCE3397128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search