American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 Gabeba Baderoon and flowers

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are more tolerant and even encourage men to behave like women and women to act like men

American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 Gabeba Baderoon and flowersThe antebellum period has long been identified with the belated emergence of a truly national literature. And yet, as Meredith L. McGill argues, a mass market for books in this period was built and sustained through what we would call rampant literary piracy: a national literature developed not despite but because of the systematic copying of foreign works. Restoring a political dimension to accounts of the economic grounds of antebellum literature,