Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences,
History
Vol. 4 (Fall, 2012)
Table
of Contents
Editor's Introduction: Reception Turns a Page
p. iv
Essay:
Ildiko Olasz and M. Genevieve
West, "Follow the Reader:
New Views and Inquiries in Reception Studies" p. 1
Reviews:
1.
Amaya, Hector. Screening
Cuba: Film Criticism as Political
Performance During the Cold War. Urbana: U. of Illinois P, 2010.
Review by Kimberly A. Nance
p. 17
2. Anderson, Thomas P., and Ryan Netzley,
eds. Acts of
Reading:
Interpretation, Reading
Practices, and the Idea of the Book in
John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2009.
Review by Joseph Sullivan p. 19
3.
Blair, Amy
L. Reading
Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture
of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States.
Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2012. Review by Barbara Ryan p. 21
4. Foreman,
P. Gabrielle. Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women
in the Nineteenth Century. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2009.
Review by Jeremy Wells p.
24
5.
Hochman,
Barbara. Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Reading Revolution:
Race,
Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851-1911. Amherst: U of
Massachusetts P, 2011. Review by Charles Johanningsmeier
p. 26
6. John,
Juliet. Dickens and Mass Culture. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011.
MD: Lexington, 2010. Review by
Jennifer Phegley p. 29
7. Johnson,
William A. Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman
Empire: A Study of Elite
Communities. New York: Oxford UP, 2010.
Review by Ika Willis
p. 33
8. Newman, Michael Z. Indie: An American Film Culture. New York:
Columbia UP, 2011. Review by John Hellmann p. 36
9. Razlogova, Elena. The
Listener’s Voice: Early Radio and the
American Public. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2011.
Review by Allison Fisher
p. 38
10. Roberts, Gillian. Prizing
Literature: The Celebration and
Circulation of National Culture. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2011.
Review by Molly Abel Travis p. 40
11.
Sankara, Edgard. Postcolonial
Francophone Autobiographies:
From Africa
to the Antilles. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P,
2011.
Review by Olivier J. Tchouaffe
p. 43
12.
Satterwhite,
Emily. Dear Appalachia: Readers,
Identity, and
Popular Fiction since 1878. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2011.
Review by Philip Goldstein p. 46
13.
Schäfer, Mirko Tobias. Bastard
Culture!: How User Participation
Transforms Cultural Production. Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP, 2011.
Review by Rhiannon Bury p. 49
14. Shohet, Lauren. Reading Masques: The English Masque and
Public
Culture in the Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010.
Review by Michael L. Donnelly p. 52
15. Sicherman, Barbara. Well-Read Lives: How Books Inspired a
Generation of American Women. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2010.
Review by Rhonda Pettit p. 55
16. Striphas,
Ted. The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book
Culture from
Consumerism to Control. New York: Columbia UP, 2009.
Review by Emily Satterwhite
p. 57
17. Sweeney, Megan. Reading
Is My Window: Books and the Art of
Reading in Women’s Prisons. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2010.
Review by Yung-Sing Wu p. 60
18. Towheed, Shafquat, Rosiland Crone, and Katie Halsey, eds. The
History of Reading. London: Routledge, 2011.
Review by Patrocinio Schweickart p. 62
19. Wilkes, Joanne. Women
Reviewing Women in Nineteenth-Century
Britain: The Critical Reception of Jane Austen,
Charlotte Brontë,
and George Eliot. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010.
Review by Charlotte Templin p. 65
7. Machor, James. Reading Fiction in Antebellum America: Informed
Response and Reception Histories, 1820-1865. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2011. Review by Gillian Silverman. p. 67
Contributors
Ildiko Olasz is an Assistant Professor of English at Northwest Missouri State University.
She has conducted interdisciplinary studies of Victorian book history and reception, and
her recent project turns to William Makepeace Thackeray’s early work as a writer and
illustrator to examine the factors that brought about the unique dynamics in his
contemporary reception.
M. Genevieve West is Professor of English at Texas Woman's University. She is
the author of Zora Neale Hurston and American Literary Culture (UP of Florida, 2005).
She is currently working on several
projects related to Hurston's short fiction and essays.