The Letters of the Republic
Author | : Michael Warner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1990 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015018894876 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Letters of the Republic written by Michael Warner and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.