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Quite an Original Failure: Melville’s Imagined Reader in The Confidence-Man 一个完全原创的失败:梅尔维尔在《信心人》中想象的读者

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Reception-Texts Readers Audiences History Pub Date : 2016-06-28 DOI: 10.5325/RECEPTION.8.1.0073

M. Seybold

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Soldiers, Readers, and the Reception of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables in Civil War America 内战时期的美国，士兵、读者和对维克多·雨果《不幸的人》的接受

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Reception-Texts Readers Audiences History Pub Date : 2016-06-28 DOI: 10.5325/RECEPTION.8.1.0005

Vanessa Steinroetter

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What Would Jesus Read? Popular Religious Books and Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century America. by Erin A. Smith (review) 耶稣会读什么?通俗宗教书籍与二十世纪美国的日常生活。作者:Erin A. Smith(评论)

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Reception-Texts Readers Audiences History Pub Date : 2016-06-28 DOI: 10.5860/choice.191877

Barbara Ryan

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The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America by Michael C. Cohen (review) 《19世纪美国诗歌的社会生活》作者:迈克尔·c·科恩

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Reception-Texts Readers Audiences History Pub Date : 2016-06-28 DOI: 10.5860/choice.193679

G. Silverman

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Senecan Tragedy and the Reception of Augustan Poetry by Christopher V. Trinacty (review) 塞内坎悲剧与克里斯托弗·v·崔纳提对奥古斯都诗歌的接受(书评)

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Reception-Texts Readers Audiences History Pub Date : 2015-06-19 DOI: 10.5860/choice.185833

I. Willis

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Guest Editors’ Introduction 特邀编辑介绍

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Reception-Texts Readers Audiences History Pub Date : 2015-06-19 DOI: 10.1080/10864415.1997.11518286

Patrocinio P. Schweickart, Patrocinio Philip Goldstein

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Staging the Reception of American Ethnic Authors in Women’s Popular Magazines: Encountering Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club Stories in Seventeen and Ladies’ Home Journal 女性大众杂志对美国少数民族作家的接待——以谭恩美的《十七岁》《喜福会》和《妇女家庭杂志》为例

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Reception-Texts Readers Audiences History Pub Date : 2015-06-19 DOI: 10.5325/reception.7.1.0045

Matthew James Vechinski

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(Re)reading Zora Neale Hurston and “The Lost Keys of Glory” (重读)阅读佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿和《失落的荣耀之钥》

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Reception-Texts Readers Audiences History Pub Date : 2015-06-19 DOI: 10.5325/RECEPTION.7.1.0008

M. West

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Rethinking the Creation of Cultural Hierarchy in America 重新思考美国文化等级制度的形成

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Reception-Texts Readers Audiences History Pub Date : 2014-07-07 DOI: 10.5325/RECEPTION.6.1.0004

J. Rubin

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Readers of Joshua Loth Liebman’s Peace of Mind 约书亚·罗思·利伯曼《心灵的平静》的读者

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Reception-Texts Readers Audiences History Pub Date : 2014-07-07 DOI: 10.5325/RECEPTION.6.1.0038

C. Oestreicher

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