Studies in the Novel, September 22nd, 1993
RAILTON, STEPHEN, (Princeton, NJ: University Press, 1991) 241 pp. $35.00 cloth; $12.95 paper. William Charvatt's suggestion, in 1949, that the antebellum "general reader"'s influence on classic American writers "can be documented conclusively from internal evidence in [their] work," serves as epigraph and scholarly motivation for Stephen Railton's engaging study of the period's canonical texts as "self-conscious ... performances" before the young republic's emergent mass readership. Railton's list of texts is a traditional one: Emerson's "Divinity School Address," Thoreau's Walden, Hawthorne'...
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