TY  - BOOK
AU  - Warner,Michael
TI  - The letters of the Republic: publication and the public sphere in eighteenth-century America 
SN  - 0674527860
U1  - 070.5/0973‰220 
PY  - 1990///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Publishers and publishing
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Literature publishing
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - American literature
KW  - 1783-1850
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Công tác xuất bản
KW  - Nhà xuất bản
KW  - Hoa Kỳ
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-199) and index; Preface -- Cultural mediation of the print medium -- Res Publica of letters -- Franklin: representational politics of the man of letters -- Textuality and legitimacy in the printed constitution -- Nationalism and the problem of republican literature -- Novel: fantasies of publicity -- Notes -- Index
N2  - 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 ones 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 power in a way that set in motion the republican structure of government we have inherited
ER  -