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- catalog abstract "America's Sketchbook recaptures the drama of nineteenth-century American cultural life, placing at its center a genre - the literary sketch - more available and formally accessible than the novel, less governable by the critical establishment, and shot through with the tensions and types of local and national culture-making. In the first Golden Age of magazines (1820-1860), the brief, open form of the sketch seized the attention of a new mass audience, readers of magazines as well as of books, and authors as diverse as Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanny Fern, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Caroline M. Kirkland, Harriet E. Wilson, Herman Melville, and Sarah Bagley. It became a vigorous force in the democratization of American literature. In her comprehensive study of American sketch writing, Kristic Hamilton gives new insight into the powers of mass-market intimacy more personal and home-like than home - and into leisure, which as a component of middle-class identity is quite as imperative in its achievement as disciplined morality. Here, also, is a more complex story of the aesthetic, as a class-inflected realm, in which factory women and rural and urban middle-class authors debate the shape of literature and life.".
- catalog contributor b10442259.
- catalog coverage "United States Civilization 19th century.".
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "America's Sketchbook recaptures the drama of nineteenth-century American cultural life, placing at its center a genre - the literary sketch - more available and formally accessible than the novel, less governable by the critical establishment, and shot through with the tensions and types of local and national culture-making. In the first Golden Age of magazines (1820-1860), the brief, open form of the sketch seized the attention of a new mass audience, readers of magazines as well as of books, and authors as diverse as Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanny Fern, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Caroline M. Kirkland, Harriet E. Wilson, Herman Melville, and Sarah Bagley. It became a vigorous force in the democratization of American literature.".
- catalog description "In her comprehensive study of American sketch writing, Kristic Hamilton gives new insight into the powers of mass-market intimacy more personal and home-like than home - and into leisure, which as a component of middle-class identity is quite as imperative in its achievement as disciplined morality. Here, also, is a more complex story of the aesthetic, as a class-inflected realm, in which factory women and rural and urban middle-class authors debate the shape of literature and life.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index.".
- catalog description "The Sketch and Local authority -- Piecework and reverie -- Mass-market intimacy -- Private pleasures and the idea of democracy -- Genres of the middling classes -- the logic of leisure -- "To play the companion" -- Rambles in residence -- The "convincing air of locality" -- Unsettled Regions of American authenticity -- Southern oddities -- Speaking pictures of Divided Loyalties -- The Politics of literature -- A disturbing sense of privacy -- "Whetting the Swords that slay them" -- Women refusing fiction -- Melville's female factory and fraternal discomfort -- Shades of barbarism and sleepless vigilance -- Speed, technology, and the subject of vision -- Dioramic literature, the metropolis, and the nation -- The everyday life of the American sketch.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 190 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "America's sketchbook.".
- catalog identifier "0821411993 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "America's sketchbook.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Athens, Oh : Ohio University Press,".
- catalog relation "America's sketchbook.".
- catalog spatial "United States Civilization 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "818/.30809 21".
- catalog subject "Aesthetics, American.".
- catalog subject "American essays 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American prose literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Books and reading United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Description (Rhetoric) History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Description (Rhetoric)".
- catalog subject "Literary form History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Literary form.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "PS36 .H35 1997".
- catalog subject "Popular literature United States History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Realism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Short stories, American History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Sketch and Local authority -- Piecework and reverie -- Mass-market intimacy -- Private pleasures and the idea of democracy -- Genres of the middling classes -- the logic of leisure -- "To play the companion" -- Rambles in residence -- The "convincing air of locality" -- Unsettled Regions of American authenticity -- Southern oddities -- Speaking pictures of Divided Loyalties -- The Politics of literature -- A disturbing sense of privacy -- "Whetting the Swords that slay them" -- Women refusing fiction -- Melville's female factory and fraternal discomfort -- Shades of barbarism and sleepless vigilance -- Speed, technology, and the subject of vision -- Dioramic literature, the metropolis, and the nation -- The everyday life of the American sketch.".
- catalog title "America's sketchbook : the cultural life of a nineteenth-century literary genre / Kristie Hamilton.".
- catalog type "text".