| The Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America Revised Edition Contributor(s): Warner, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674527860 ISBN-13: 9780674527867 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1992 Annotation: The subject of Michael Warner's book is the rise of a nation. America, he shows, became a nation by developing a new kind of reading public, where one becomes a citizen by taking ones place as writer or reader. At heart, the United States is a republic of letters, and its birth can be dated from changes in the culture of printing in the early eighteenth century The new and widespread use of print media transformed the relations between people and power in a way that set in motion the republican structure of government we have inherited. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Publishers & Publishing Industry - Social Science | Media Studies - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 070.5 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.13" W x 9.19" (0.69 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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| Publisher Description: The subject of Michael Warner's book is the rise of a nation. America, he shows, became a nation by developing a new kind of reading public, where one becomes a citizen by taking one's place as writer or reader. At heart, the United States is a republic of letters, and its birth can be dated from changes in the culture of printing in the early eighteenth century. The new and widespread use of print media transformed the relations between people and power in a way that set in motion the republican structure of government we have inherited. Examining books, pamphlets, and circulars, he merges theory and concrete analysis to provide a multilayered view of American cultural development. |
Contributor Bio(s): Warner, Michael: - Michael Warner is Seymour H. Knox Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. He is the editor of American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King and Fear of a Queer Planet. He also writes for The Nation, The Advocate, The Village Voice, and other periodicals. |