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Fever Reading: Affect and Reading Badly in the Early American Public Sphere
Author(s): Michael Millner (Author)
- Publisher: University Press of New England
- Publication Date: 12 Jun. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 216 pages
- ISBN-10: 1611682436
- ISBN-13: 9781611682434
Book Description
Drawing on a rich archive of scandal chronicles, pornography, medical journals, religious novels, and popular newspapers, as well as more canonical sources, Michael Millner examines the panics and paranoia associated with “bad reading” in the United States from the late eighteenth century to the Civil War. Weaving into his analysis a model of emotion recently developed in cognitive psychology, he provides the back-history to our present-day debates about “bad” reading and shows how these debates-both in the past and in the present-are in part about the shape of the public sphere itself.
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About the Author
MICHAEL MILLNER is an assistant professor of American studies and English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
