Reception:texts, readers, audiences, history
Vol. 3 (Summer,
2011)
Table of Contents
Essays:
1. Kenneth
M. Roemer, "They Talk, Who Listens: Audience in
American Indian Literatures--The Erdrich Example" p. 1
2.
Jennifer Nolan-Stinson, "Toward a Life History of
Reading" p. 35
3. Olga Kuminova, “To See Across the Veil of
Print: Virtual
Re-personalization of the Reader-Author Relationship
during
the ‘Reading Revolution’” p. 59
4. Charlotte
Templin, “Americans Read Margaret Atwood’s
Surfacing: Literary Criticism and Cultural Differences” p. 102
5. Katherine
Mack, “Public Memory as Contested Receptions
of the Past” p. 136
Reviews:
Review by Patricia Harkin p. 163
3. Brown,
Matthew P. The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and
Book Culture in Early New England. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P,
2007. Review by Paul Dahlgren p. 167
4. Frazier,
Melissa. Romantic Encounters: Writers,
Readers, and the
Library for Reading. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP,
2007. Review by
Stephanie Lynn Carlson p. 170
5. Haskin,
Dayton. John Donne in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford:
Oxford UP, 2007. Review by Joseph Sullivan p. 173
6. Kallendorf,
Craig. The Other Virgil: "Pessimistic" Readings of
the Aeneid in
Early Modern Culture. New York: Oxford UP, 2007.
Review by Ika Willis p. 176
7. Loveman,
Kate. Reading Fictions, 1660-1740:
Deception in
English
Literary and Political Culture. Burlington, VT: Ashgate,
2008. Review by Marta Kvande p. 179
8. Robertson, Michael.
Worshipping
Walt: The Whitman Disciples.
Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008. Review by Jennifer L. Brady p. 182
9. Rubin,
Joan Shelley. Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in
America.
Cambridge, MA: Belknap P of Harvard UP, 2007.
Review by Shannon L. Thomas p. 185
10. Wakelin,
Daniel. Humanism, Reading, & English Literature 1430
-1530. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007. Review by Mark Amsler. p. 188
11. Willes,
Margaret. Reading
Matters: Five Centuries of Discovering Books. New Haven: Yale UP, 2008.
Review by Cecilia Konchar Farr p. 191
Contributors:
Olga Kuminova is a postdoctoral researcher at the Foreign
Literatures and Linguistics Department of the Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev, Beer-Sheva, under the guidance of Prof. Barbara Hochman. The working title of the
research project is "From Reader-Author Companionship to the Birth of Fan
Mail in the United States, 1840-1880." Following
the completion of her PhD in 2009, she has been working as a teaching associate
at the Ben-Gurion University and Kaye College for Education, Beer Sheva,
teaching literature and academic writing in English, and running a small
business for academic writing support.
Katherine Mack
is an assistant professor of rhetoric and writing at the University of Colorado Springs, Colorado. She is currently working on
her monograph, A Generative Failure: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa.
Her essays have appeared in the journal WPA
as well as the edited collections Silence
and Listening as Rhetorical Arts and Global
Memoryscapes: Contesting Remembrance in a Transnational
Age.
Jennifer
Nolan-Stinson is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of English at
North Carolina State University. She is currently working on a monograph
about twentieth- and twenty-first-century American reading practices based on
her ethnographic research and has recently begun a new project exploring the
intersections between consumption, design, and marketing of paperback books.
Kenneth M. Roemer is a Distinguished Teaching and Distinguisher
Scholar Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. He has published
four books on utopian literature, including The Obsolete Necessity (1976) and
Utopian Audiences (2003) and three on American Indian Literatures, including
the co-edited Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (2005).
Charlotte
Templin is Professor of English at the University of Indianapolis. She has published numerous articles on the
reception of modern American and Canadian women writers and is the author of Feminism
and the Politics of Literary Reputation.