Revolution and the Word
The Rise of the Novel in America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11675651 |
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| Authors | John B Hench (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 192-192 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Revolution and the word: The rise of the novel in America, Cathy N Davidson, 1986 |
| Venue | Journal of the Early Republic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0275-1275 • E-ISSN: 1553-0620 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3123819 |
| OpenAlex | W2107562224 |
| Language | EN |
Revolution and the Word is the classic study of the co-emergence of the U.S. nation and the new literary genre of the novel. The book remains the foundational study of reading, writing, and publishing in the new republic and provides a unique glimpse of the culture of early America. By looking at everything from publisher's account books to marginalia scrawled in eighteenth-century books to the novels themselves, Revolution and the Word provides an engaging social history of early American readership that is also informed by the most insightful aspects of literary theory. With a backward glance at the culture wars and prognostications for what lies ahead, the comprehensive introduction of this expanded edition reframes Revolution and the Word for a new generation of scholars. It revisits topics of dissent in the early national period, the status of the Constitution as a document designed to quell the still-burning passions of the American Revolution, and the role played by the novel in publicizing and articulating complex desires not addressed at the Constitutional Convention. Cathy N. Davidson provides readers with a survey and critique of the controversial and productive thought in cultural, social, and political theory as it has evolved during the last twenty years. This astute and learned assessment of recent developments in literary and historical scholarship, colonial and postcolonial studies, race theory, gender and sexuality theory, class studies, cultural studies, and history of the book will make Revolution and the Word as urgent for this generation as it was for its original readers in 1986
Economic history · Linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Word (group theory · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Philosophy
Seduction's Offspring
Willful Sadness
Libraries without Walls
The Threshold of Fiction
Gothic Signifying in Charles Chesnutt’s Mandy Oxendine
E Pluribus Unum
Beyond the Religious and the Secular in the History of the Novel
Reading the Newspaper
The Conscience of Society
Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature
The Cambridge History of the American Novel
"The Shadow of Law"
“This is a strange book”
"Over and above… There Broods a Portentous Shadow,--The Shadow of Law"
Sentimental Emasculations
Capitalism, Black (Under)development, and the Production of the African-American Novel in the 1850s
Introduction
Heroine, Reformer, Citizen
Terrific Register
Marx, Memory, Loss
Fanny Fern's 1855 Ruth Hall , the cheerful brutality of capitalism, & the irony of sentimental rhetoric
The feminization of liberty, domesticated virtue, and the reconstitution of power and authority in early American political discourse
The Work of the Heart
"Is It Worse to Follow Mahomet than the Devil?" Early American Uses of Islam
The Presence of the Dead among U.S. Protestants, 1800–1848
Captaine Smith, Colonial Novelist
Fictionality Risen
The Reading Habit and “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Ain’t One Limb Enough?” Historicizing Disability in the American Novel
Head and Hands Together
Libertinism and Authorship in America's Early Republic
Indelicate Exposure”
The Novelist as Organic Intellectual
Deep Thought, Shallow Aesthetic
Tract Tales, Literary Aesthetics, and American Fiction
Charles Brockden Brown's Biloquial Nation
Public Women, Private Men
Pedagogical Dramas and Transformational Play
On the Betrayal of Nations
The uses of the American Gothic
Unworthy Global Citizens
Captain Nemo's questing after American causes
Letters of the law
Similarity and Political Patriarchy during the American Founding
George Lippard's Fragile Utopian Future and 1840s American Economic Turmoil
From Equivalence to Equity
Feeding the hungry heart
If They Smile He Will Flourish”
Confined to Bed
Cincinnati’s Infernal Regions Exhibit and the Waning of Calvinist Authority
Indications of the Public Will””
Atlantic Cultures and the Age of Revolution
Learning from Stephen Burroughs
Early American History in a Postmodern Age
Reading
Gender and Genre
Medicalizing the Romantic Libido
Gothic Enlightenment
The Barbary Captivity Narrative in American Culture
Learn to Love Your Book
Establishing Routes for Fiction in the United States
The Americanization of Clarissa
Writing Women in Early American Studies
The Adventures of Emmera, the Transatlantic Novel, and the Fiction of America
Evolution of the Novel in the United States
The Persistence of Reading
Depression is ordinary
Anne Royall s Apocalyptic Rhetoric
Insisting on Femininity
One Need Not be A Chamber-to be Haunted
"Republican Machines" or Pestalozzian Bildung? Two Visions of Moral Education in the Early Republic
Rakes, Coquettes and Republican Patriarchs
Movements, Aesthetics, and Markets in Literary Change
The Business of Reading in Nineteenth-Century America
Karcher's Romance of the Republic
Is or Are
Women and the Republic
Literacy Instruction and Gender in Colonial New England
Reading Culture Through the ABC
Victorian Antigone
The Black President Hokum
Black Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century America
A New Context for a New American Studies
Boston/Sob Not
Becoming Noncanonical
Gendering the History of the Antislavery Narrative
Quixotism, Federalism, and the Question of American National Identity in Royall Tyler’s The Algerine Captive
Books and Lives, Reading and Achievement
Sympathy and Separation
Petitions Without Number”
Authorship Cross-Examined by Critical Legal Studies
Old Problems and the New Historicism
Precipitous Sensations
Republican Machines and Brackenridge's Caves
Scratching the Surface
| Highly cited | No |
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