Authorship and audience : literary performance in the American Renaissance

Authorship and audience : literary performance in the American Renaissance / Stephen Railton.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Railton, Stephen, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1991.
Subjects:
American prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Authors and readers > United States > History > 19th century.
Authorship > History > 19th century.
Reader-response criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • The anxiety of performance
  • "The high price of eloquence" : Emerson as orator
  • "He did not feel himself except in opposition" : Thoreau's Walden
  • Mothers, husbands, and an Uncle : Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • The democratic nonesuch : southwestern humor
  • "To open an intercourse with the world" : Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter
  • "At the writer's control": Poe's psychology of composition
  • "You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in" : Melville's Moby-Dick
  • Conclusion : "Who ain't a slave?" .

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