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The Atlantic Souvenir For 1830

The Atlantic Souvenir For 1830

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Art Criticism & TheoryLetters & EssaysGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354507883
ISBN13: 9789354507885
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Open this gilt-edged moment from 1830, when literature arrived as a gift. A season, pressed into print. The Atlantic Souvenir For 1830 is a classic american literary annual: a 19th century keepsake annual designed to be cherished, shared, and displayed. Within its covers, a poetry and prose anthology gathers romantic era poetry beside sentimental short fiction, framed by an engraved illustration collection that captures the period's tastes for feeling, virtue, and refinement. In the age of letter-writing and parlour reading, such volumes blended art and intimacy: a New Year token meant to be kept, revisited, and shown to friends. More than pleasant reading, it is a window onto the early republic united states and the social theatre of 1830s american literature, where emerging voices and established styles met on the parlour table. As an artefact, it shows how the early republic united states embraced the transatlantic keepsake fashion, marrying engraving with readable, heartfelt variety at home. For collectors, it stands as a collectible illustrated annual in the same gift-book tradition as the literary keepsake annual and the forget me not annual. For the curious reader, it offers compact, varied pieces you can dip into at leisure; for historians and librarians, it provides rich evidence for literary annuals research, from print culture to the aesthetics of engraving. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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