English Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Literary Theory - Major Schools, Literary Criticism - U.S. Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneous, Utopias
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Overview
With Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward serving as the centerpiece for the discussion, Roemer (English, U. of Texas at Arlington) examines reader response to American utopian literature in the 19th and 20th centuries. He proceeds under the assumptions that readers give meaning to texts constrained by cultural, historical, and personal forces and that the complexities of meaning formation call for a combination of approaches associated with reader-response, receptions, and history-of-the-book studies. He bases his work on documentary sources and a survey of 733 late 20th-century readers of Looking Backward. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, ORBook Details
Published
November 30, 2003
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Pages
312
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781558494213