Getting at the Author: Reimagining Books and Reading in the Age of American Realism

By Barbara Hochman

Book Overview

Throughout the nineteenth century, American readers and reviewers assumed that a book revealed its author's individuality, that the experience of reading was a kind of conversation with the writer.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558492879
• ISBN13: 9781558492875
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"