This monograph explores transatlantic literary culture by tracing the proliferation of ‘new media,’ such as the anthology, the literary history and the magazine, in the period between 1750 and 1850. The fast-paced media landscape out of which these publishing genres developed produced the need of a ‘memory of literature’ and a concomitant rhetoric of remembering strikingly similar to what today is called a cultural memory debate. Thus, rather than depicting the emergence of an American national literature, The Rise of New Media(1750–1850) combines impulses from media history, the history of print, the sociology of literature and canon theory to uncover nascent forms and genres of literary self-reflectivity and early stirrings of a canon debate in the Atlantic World.
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This monograph explores transatlantic literary culture by tracing the proliferation of ‘new media,’ such as the anthology, the literary history and the magazine, in the period between 1750 and 1850. The fast-paced media landscape out of which these publishing genres developed produced the need of a ‘memory of literature’ and a concomitant rhetoric of remembering strikingly similar to what today is called a cultural memory debate. Thus, rather than depicting the emergence of an American national literature, The Rise of New Media(1750–1850) combines impulses from media history, the history of print, the sociology of literature and canon theory to uncover nascent forms and genres of literary self-reflectivity and early stirrings of a canon debate in the Atlantic World.
About the Author
Julia Straub is Senior Lecturer at the English Department of the University Berne, Switzerland. She is the editor of the Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies and author of A Victorian Muse: The Afterlife of Dante’s Beatrice in Nineteenth-Century Literature .
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History
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American
Literary Criticism
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United States
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Straub, Julia

Palgrave Macmillan US, New York

Macmillan Education UK

Springer Nature

Red Globe Press

The New Urban Atlantic, 1st edition 2017, New York, 2017

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

New urban Atlantic, New York, NY, 2017

May 23, 2017

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Source title: The Rise of New Media 1750–1850: Transatlantic Discourse and American Memory (The New Urban Atlantic)

"The Rise of New Media 1750â#x80;#x93;1850"--"Acknowledgments"--"Contents" -- "List of Figures" -- "1 Introduction: Building an American Memory of Literature, 1750â#x80;#x93;1850" -- "1.1 Aims and Approach" -- "1.2 Memory, Media, and Literature: First Reflections" -- "2 Remembering Literature in Early America: Transatlanticism, Cultural Memory, and Its Media" -- "2.1 Transatlantic Readings of Early American Literature" -- "2.2 Early American Studies and the Question of the Canon" -- "2.3 Media, Old and New" -- "2.4 Cultural Memory, Texts, and Their Media" -- "3 Virtual Museums: The Literary Magazine and Transatlantic Periodical Culture" -- "3.1 Approaching Early American Magazines" -- "3.2 The Place of Periodicals" -- "3.3 How Early American Periodicals Worked" -- "3.4 Transatlantic Periodical Culture in the Eighteenth Century" -- "3.5 Shop, Store, Tearoom: The Social and Cultural Functions of Magazines" -- "3.6 The Magazine as Museum" -- "3.7 Building a Transatlantic Memory in Magazines" -- "4 Of Gems, Beauties, and Relics: Anthologies in Early America" -- "4.1 Paradoxes of the Anthology" -- "4.2 Reading American Anthologies as Transatlantic Cultural Texts" -- "4.3 Early American and British Anthologies as Media of Memory" -- "4.3.1 British Anthologies in the Eighteenth Century" -- "4.3.2 Mathew Careyâ#x80;#x99;s Anthologies" -- "4.3.3 Elihu Hubbard Smithâ#x80;#x99;s American Poems (1793)" -- "4.3.4 Elihu Hubbard Smithâ#x80;#x99;s Preface to American Poems" -- "4.4 American Anthologies of the Early Nineteenth Century" -- "4.4.1 Samuel Kettellâ#x80;#x99;s Preface to Specimens of American Poetry (1829)" -- "4.4.2 Transatlantic Anthologies of the Early Nineteenth Century" -- "5 Early Forms of Literary Historiography in America: Literary Histories as Narrative Anthologies" -- "5.1 Literary Histories in Britain and the United States: A Comparison"

Introduction: Building An American Memory Of Literature, 1750-1850 -- Remembering Literature In Early America: Transatlanticism, Cultural Memory, And Its Media -- Virtual Museums: The Literary Magazine And Transatlantic Periodical Culture -- Of Gems, Beauties, And Relics: Anthologies In Early America -- Early Forms Of Literary Historiography In America: Literary Histories As Narrative Anthologies -- Conclusion. Julia Straub. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 157-188) And Index.

The New Urban Atlantic
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.05.2017

2025-10-27