Overview
- Investigates a little explored corpus of magazines, anthologies and literary histories as part of a transatlantic media landscape
- Engages with current discussions in early American studies on print culture, media history, periodicals, canon formation and transnationalism
- Develops notions of the Atlantic world and transatlanticism by embedding them within central theoretical debates in literary and cultural studies
Part of the book series: The New Urban Atlantic (NUA)
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This monograph explores transatlantic literary culture by tracing the proliferation of ‘new media,’ 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 ‘memory of literature’ 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(1750–1850) 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.
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About the author
Julia Straub is Senior Lecturer at the English Department of the University Berne, Switzerland. She is the editor of the Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies and author of A Victorian Muse: The Afterlife of Dante’s Beatrice in Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Rise of New Media 1750–1850
Book Subtitle: Transatlantic Discourse and American Memory
Authors: Julia Straub
Series Title: The New Urban Atlantic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58168-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58979-8Published: 23 May 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95860-3Published: 09 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58168-6Published: 22 May 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 193
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: North American Literature, Literary History, Memory Studies, US History