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The Letters of the Republic
Michael Warner
其他書名
Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America
出版Harvard University Press, 2009-06-01
主題Antiques & Collectibles / Paper EphemeraHistory / United States / GeneralHistory / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)Language Arts & Disciplines / Publishers & Publishing IndustryLiterary Collections / LettersLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / General
ISBN06740448869780674044883
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lQpsFaxQZT4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.