The Rise of New Media 1750û1850: Transatlantic Discourse and American Memory (The New Urban Atlantic)

This monograph explores transatlantic literary culture by tracing the proliferation of ænew media,Æ such as the anthology, the literary history and the magazine, in the period between 1750 and 1850. The fast-paced media landscape out of which these publishing genres developed produced the need of a æmemory of literatureÆ and a concomitant rhetoric of remembering strikingly similar to what today is called a cultural memory debate. Thus, rather than depicting the emergence of an American national literature, The Rise of New Media(1750û1850) combines impulses from media history, the history of print, the sociology of literature and canon theory to uncover nascent forms and genres of literary self-reflectivity and early stirrings of a canon debate in the Atlantic World.

• | Author: Julia Straub
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: May 23, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 203 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1137589795
• | ISBN-13: 9781137589798