附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dante in America: the first hundred years / Kathleen Verduin -- The material Melville: shaping readers' horizons / Michael Kearns -- Judging literary books by their covers: house styles, Ticknor and Fields, and literary promotion / Jeffrey D. Groves -- Literature in newsprint: antebellum family newspapers and the uses of reading / Amy M. Thomas -- Manufacturing intellectual equipment: the Tauchnitz edition of The Marble faun / Susan S. Williams -- Finding his mark: Twain's The Innocents abroad as a subscription book / Nancy Cook -- Defining the national pantheon: the making of Houghton Mifflin's Biographical series, 1880-1900 / Scott E. Casper -- Materiality as performance: the forming of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona / Michele Moylan -- Packaging literature for the high schools: from Riverside literature series to Literature and life / Lane Stiles.
