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Cultural Narratives : Textuality and Performance in American Culture Before 1900.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (400 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780268080617
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cultural NarrativesDDC classification:
  • 302.23/0973
LOC classification:
  • P92.U6 C845 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half title -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Hand Piety -- or, Operating a Book in Early New England -- 2. Poor Performance -- 3. Addressing Maps in British America -- 4. Print, Manuscript, and Staged Performance -- 5. From Performance to Print in the Native Northeast -- 6. Beyond the Printed Word -- 7. Sarah Wentworth Morton and Changing Models of Authorship -- 8. The Path of a Play Script -- 9. "The Speaking Eye and the Listening Ear" -- 10. Print Poetry as Oral "Event"in Nineteenth-Century American Periodicals -- 11. Silenced Women and Silent Language in Early Abolitionist Serials -- 12. Straddling the Color Line -- 13. Secret in Altered Lines -- 14. The State Between Orality and Textuality -- 15. Authentic Revisions -- 16. Reading the Image -- 17. The Emerging Media of Early America -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: This collection of essays debates how written printed, visual, and performed works produced meaning and a multimedia culture in America before 1900.
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Cover -- Half title -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Hand Piety -- or, Operating a Book in Early New England -- 2. Poor Performance -- 3. Addressing Maps in British America -- 4. Print, Manuscript, and Staged Performance -- 5. From Performance to Print in the Native Northeast -- 6. Beyond the Printed Word -- 7. Sarah Wentworth Morton and Changing Models of Authorship -- 8. The Path of a Play Script -- 9. "The Speaking Eye and the Listening Ear" -- 10. Print Poetry as Oral "Event"in Nineteenth-Century American Periodicals -- 11. Silenced Women and Silent Language in Early Abolitionist Serials -- 12. Straddling the Color Line -- 13. Secret in Altered Lines -- 14. The State Between Orality and Textuality -- 15. Authentic Revisions -- 16. Reading the Image -- 17. The Emerging Media of Early America -- Contributors -- Index.

This collection of essays debates how written printed, visual, and performed works produced meaning and a multimedia culture in America before 1900.

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