Secondary authorship : aesthetics and the idea of mass culture in the United States, 1835-1866

My dissertation examines popular authorship in the antebellum United States. Following the print explosion of the 1830s, American authors found themselves participating in a slowly emerging mass print culture. While most scholars agree that massification proper did not characterize the production, c...

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Main Author: McAlister, Sean
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/45591