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Letters of the Republic Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America

Warner Michael
Heftet / 1992 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780674527867
Publisert
1992-01-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Harvard University Press
Vekt
340 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224

Forfatter
Warner Michael

Biographical note

Michael Warner is Seymour H. Knox Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. He is the editor of American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King and Fear of a Queer Planet. He also writes for The Nation, The Advocate, The Village Voice, and other periodicals.

Letters of the Republic Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America

Warner Michael
Heftet / 1992 / Engelsk
Warner Michael
Heftet / 1992 / Engelsk
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Michael Warner’s compact discourse on the meaning of the printed word in eighteenth-century America will be recognized by every reader as an extraordinarily ingenious contribution, and one of lasting lasting importance, to the study of republicanism and to the history of print… Warner’s notion of a socially and culturally limited ‘public sphere,’ inhabited by participants in a depersonalized, largely printed discourse, not only rings true to the evidence but provides a powerful aid in articulating the nature and limits of republicanism.

- Charles E. Clark, William & Mary Quarterly

Arguing the inseparableness of print and culture, this is one of the most engaging books about eighteenth-century American publishing in decades.

- Hazel Dicken-Garcia, Journal of the Early Republic

Michael Warner captures better than anyone else I know the way a new technology and the practices related to it can enable a new social formation to crystallize. In doing so Warner provides us with a terribly important lesson in how to conceive of society and more particularly how to understand the functioning of society within the condition of Western modernity. An excellent book.

- Charles Taylor, McGill University,

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Innovative in conception, resourcefully argued, <i>The Letters of the Republic</i> will certainly become one of the indispensable books on eighteenth-century American literary history. [This] lucid study…is marked throughout by a distilled, mature intellection that is rare even in senior scholars, and in a younger scholar’s first book, most extraordinary.

- Lawrence Buell, Harvard University,

A brilliant revaluation of eighteenth-century America, a work of extraordinary learning and sustained insight, with far-reaching implications, both practical and theoretical, for the study of literature and culture through the Revolutionary and Federalist eras and beyond. It establishes Michael Warner unquestionably as a major critic and a leading Americanist.

- Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University,

<i>The Letters of the Republic</i> is a highly original book of great explanatory power, one that fills a gaping hole in the secondary literature of eighteenth-century American culture and brings a theoretical sophistication to the literary history of that period rarely encountered in the scholarship this is an important and in many ways remarkable book. It is written with grace and with a broad intelligence always in evidence.

- Jay Fliegelman, Stanford University,

Overall, the writing is marvelously economical and precise… The book is original without being forced; the originality lies in both the fundamental scheme and in the careful readings of particular materials.

- David Hall, Harvard University,

The subject of Michael Warner’s book is the rise of a nation. America, he shows, became a nation by developing a new kind of reading public, where one becomes a citizen by taking one’s place as writer or reader. At heart, the United States is a republic of letters, and its birth can be dated from changes in the culture of printing in the early eighteenth century. The new and widespread use of print media transformed the relations between people and power in a way that set in motion the republican structure of government we have inherited. Examining books, pamphlets, and circulars, he merges theory and concrete analysis to provide a multilayered view of American cultural development.
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America, Warner shows, became a nation by developing a new kind of reading public, where one becomes a citizen by taking one’s place as writer or reader. At heart, the United States is a republic of letters, and its birth can be dated from changes in the culture of printing in the early eighteenth century.
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Preface The Cultural Mediation of the Print Medium The Res Publica of Letters Franklin: The Representational Politics of the Man of Letters Textuality and Legitimacy in the Printed Constitution Nationalism and the Problem of Republican Literature The Novel: Fantasies of Publicity Notes Index
Les mer
Michael Warner’s compact discourse on the meaning of the printed word in eighteenth-century America will be recognized by every reader as an extraordinarily ingenious contribution, and one of lasting lasting importance, to the study of republicanism and to the history of print… Warner’s notion of a socially and culturally limited ‘public sphere,’ inhabited by participants in a depersonalized, largely printed discourse, not only rings true to the evidence but provides a powerful aid in articulating the nature and limits of republicanism.
Les mer
Michael Warner captures better than anyone else I know the way a new technology and the practices related to it can enable a new social formation to crystallize. In doing so Warner provides us with a terribly important lesson in how to conceive of society and more particularly how to understand the functioning of society within the condition of Western modernity. An excellent book. -- Charles Taylor, McGill University Innovative in conception, resourcefully argued, The Letters of the Republic will certainly become one of the indispensable books on eighteenth-century American literary history. [This] lucid study...is marked throughout by a distilled, mature intellection that is rare even in senior scholars and in a younger scholar's first book most extraordinary -- Lawrence Buell, Harvard University A brilliant revaluation of eighteenth-century America, a work of extraordinary learning and sustained insight, with far-reaching implications, both practical and theoretical, for the study of literature and culture through the Revolutionary and Federalist eras, and beyond. It establishes Michael Warner unquestionably as a major critic and a leading Americanist. -- Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University The Letters of the Republic is a highly original book of great explanatory power, one that fills a gaping hole in the secondary literature of eighteenth-century American culture and brings a theoretical sophistication to the literary history of that period rarely encountered in the scholarship this is an important and in many ways remarkable book. It is written with grace and with a broad intelligence always in evidence. -- Jay Fliegelman, Stanford University Overall, the writing is marvelously economical and precise ... The book is original without being forced; the originality lies in both the fundamental scheme and in the careful readings of particular materials. -- David Hall, Harvard University
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Michael Warner’s compact discourse on the meaning of the printed word in eighteenth-century America will be recognized by every reader as an extraordinarily ingenious contribution, and one of lasting lasting importance, to the study of republicanism and to the history of print… Warner’s notion of a socially and culturally limited ‘public sphere,’ inhabited by participants in a depersonalized, largely printed discourse, not only rings true to the evidence but provides a powerful aid in articulating the nature and limits of republicanism.

- Charles E. Clark, William & Mary Quarterly

Arguing the inseparableness of print and culture, this is one of the most engaging books about eighteenth-century American publishing in decades.

- Hazel Dicken-Garcia, Journal of the Early Republic

Michael Warner captures better than anyone else I know the way a new technology and the practices related to it can enable a new social formation to crystallize. In doing so Warner provides us with a terribly important lesson in how to conceive of society and more particularly how to understand the functioning of society within the condition of Western modernity. An excellent book.

- Charles Taylor, McGill University,

Se alle

Innovative in conception, resourcefully argued, <i>The Letters of the Republic</i> will certainly become one of the indispensable books on eighteenth-century American literary history. [This] lucid study…is marked throughout by a distilled, mature intellection that is rare even in senior scholars, and in a younger scholar’s first book, most extraordinary.

- Lawrence Buell, Harvard University,

A brilliant revaluation of eighteenth-century America, a work of extraordinary learning and sustained insight, with far-reaching implications, both practical and theoretical, for the study of literature and culture through the Revolutionary and Federalist eras and beyond. It establishes Michael Warner unquestionably as a major critic and a leading Americanist.

- Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University,

<i>The Letters of the Republic</i> is a highly original book of great explanatory power, one that fills a gaping hole in the secondary literature of eighteenth-century American culture and brings a theoretical sophistication to the literary history of that period rarely encountered in the scholarship this is an important and in many ways remarkable book. It is written with grace and with a broad intelligence always in evidence.

- Jay Fliegelman, Stanford University,

Overall, the writing is marvelously economical and precise… The book is original without being forced; the originality lies in both the fundamental scheme and in the careful readings of particular materials.

- David Hall, Harvard University,

The subject of Michael Warner’s book is the rise of a nation. America, he shows, became a nation by developing a new kind of reading public, where one becomes a citizen by taking one’s place as writer or reader. At heart, the United States is a republic of letters, and its birth can be dated from changes in the culture of printing in the early eighteenth century. The new and widespread use of print media transformed the relations between people and power in a way that set in motion the republican structure of government we have inherited. Examining books, pamphlets, and circulars, he merges theory and concrete analysis to provide a multilayered view of American cultural development.
Les mer
America, Warner shows, became a nation by developing a new kind of reading public, where one becomes a citizen by taking one’s place as writer or reader. At heart, the United States is a republic of letters, and its birth can be dated from changes in the culture of printing in the early eighteenth century.
Les mer
Preface The Cultural Mediation of the Print Medium The Res Publica of Letters Franklin: The Representational Politics of the Man of Letters Textuality and Legitimacy in the Printed Constitution Nationalism and the Problem of Republican Literature The Novel: Fantasies of Publicity Notes Index
Les mer
Michael Warner’s compact discourse on the meaning of the printed word in eighteenth-century America will be recognized by every reader as an extraordinarily ingenious contribution, and one of lasting lasting importance, to the study of republicanism and to the history of print… Warner’s notion of a socially and culturally limited ‘public sphere,’ inhabited by participants in a depersonalized, largely printed discourse, not only rings true to the evidence but provides a powerful aid in articulating the nature and limits of republicanism.
Les mer
Michael Warner captures better than anyone else I know the way a new technology and the practices related to it can enable a new social formation to crystallize. In doing so Warner provides us with a terribly important lesson in how to conceive of society and more particularly how to understand the functioning of society within the condition of Western modernity. An excellent book. -- Charles Taylor, McGill University Innovative in conception, resourcefully argued, The Letters of the Republic will certainly become one of the indispensable books on eighteenth-century American literary history. [This] lucid study...is marked throughout by a distilled, mature intellection that is rare even in senior scholars and in a younger scholar's first book most extraordinary -- Lawrence Buell, Harvard University A brilliant revaluation of eighteenth-century America, a work of extraordinary learning and sustained insight, with far-reaching implications, both practical and theoretical, for the study of literature and culture through the Revolutionary and Federalist eras, and beyond. It establishes Michael Warner unquestionably as a major critic and a leading Americanist. -- Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University The Letters of the Republic is a highly original book of great explanatory power, one that fills a gaping hole in the secondary literature of eighteenth-century American culture and brings a theoretical sophistication to the literary history of that period rarely encountered in the scholarship this is an important and in many ways remarkable book. It is written with grace and with a broad intelligence always in evidence. -- Jay Fliegelman, Stanford University Overall, the writing is marvelously economical and precise ... The book is original without being forced; the originality lies in both the fundamental scheme and in the careful readings of particular materials. -- David Hall, Harvard University
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780674527867
Publisert
1992-01-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Harvard University Press
Vekt
340 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224

Forfatter
Warner Michael

Biographical note

Michael Warner is Seymour H. Knox Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. He is the editor of American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King and Fear of a Queer Planet. He also writes for The Nation, The Advocate, The Village Voice, and other periodicals.

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