The Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America

by Michael Warner

Book Overview

The subject of Michael Warner's book is the rise of a nation. America, he shows, became a nation by developing a new kind of reading public, where one becomes a citizen by taking one's place as writer or reader. At heart, the United States is a republic of letters, and its birth can be dated from changes in the culture of printing in the early eighteenth century. The new and widespread use of print media transformed the relations between people and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674527860
• ISBN13: 9780674527867
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"