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.
- ISBN10 0674527852
- ISBN13 9780674527850
- Publish Date 1 August 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English