A Fictive People

A Fictive People
Author: Ronald J. Zboray
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 349
Release: 1993
Genre: American literature
ISBN: 019507582X

This text aims to explode two notions that are commonplace in American cultural histories of the 19th century: that the spread of literature was a simple force for the democratization of taste, and that there was a body of 19th-century literature that reflected "a nation of readers."