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America's sketchbook : the cultural life of a nineteenth-century literary genre
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America's sketchbook : the cultural life of a nineteenth-century literary genre

Author: Kristie Hamilton
Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Hamilton, Kristie.
America's sketchbook.
Athens : Ohio University Press, 1998
(OCoLC)605233654
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kristie Hamilton
ISBN: 0821411993 9780821411995
OCLC Number: 36969810
Description: xiii, 190 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: Kristie Hamilton.

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