Fever Reading: Affect and Reading Badly in the Early American Public Sphere - Couverture souple

Millner, Michael

 
9781611682434: Fever Reading: Affect and Reading Badly in the Early American Public Sphere
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1611682436 ISBN 13 : 9781611682434
Editeur : University Press of New England, 2012

Synopsis

Drawing on a rich archive of scandal chronicles, pornography, medical journals, religious novels, and popular newspapers, as well as more canonical sources, Michael Millner examines the panics and paranoia associated with "bad reading" in the United States from the late eighteenth century to the Civil War. Weaving into his analysis a model of emotion recently developed in cognitive psychology, he provides the back-history to our present-day debates about "bad" reading and shows how these debates-both in the past and in the present-are in part about the shape of the public sphere itself.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Drawing on a rich archive of scandal chronicles, pornography, medical journals, religious novels, and popular newspapers, as well as more canonical sources, Michael Millner examines the panics and paranoia associated with """"bad reading"""" in the United States from the late eighteenth century to the Civil War. Weaving into his analysis a model of emotion recently developed in cognitive psychology, he provides the back-history to our present-day debates about """"bad"""" reading and shows how these debates-both in the past and in the present-are in part about the shape of the public sphere itself.

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Éditeur
University Press of New England
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1611682436
ISBN 13 
9781611682434
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
216
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