The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century America... - 9781625344748

The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American LiteratureAuthor(s): Jonathan Senchyne\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Massachusetts Press, United States\nImprint: University of Massachusetts Press\nISBN-13: 9781625344748, 978-1625344748\nSynopsis\nThe true scale of paper Production in America from 1690 through the end of the nineteenth century was staggering, with a range of parties participating in different ways, from farmers growing flax to textile workers weaving cloth and from housewives saving rags to peddlers collecting them. Making a bold case for the importance of printing and paper technology in the study of early American literature, Jonathan Senchyne presents archival evidence of the effects of this very visible process on American writers, such as Anne Bradstreet, Herman Melville, Lydia Sigourney, William Wells Brown, and other lesser-known figures.\n\nThe Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature reveals that book.