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the emergence of a free press liberate eighteenthcentury American authors Most critics and historians have assumed so.
In a study certain to force a rethinking of early American literary culture, Grantland S, Rice overturns this dominant view, Rice argues that the lapse of Puritan censorship, the consolidation of copyright law, and

the explosion of a commercial print culture confronted writers in the new United States with a striking predicament: the depoliticization and commodification of public expression.


Rice shows that the rigorous censorship practiced by Puritan authorities conferred an implicit prestige on texts as civic interventions, helping to foster a vigorous and indigenous tradition of sociopolitical criticism.
With special attention to the sudden emergence of the novel in postrevolutionary America, Rice reveals how the emergence of economic liberalism undermined the earlier tradition of political writing by transforming American authorship from an expression of individual civic conscience to a marketoriented profession.


Includes discussions of the writings of Benjamin Franklin, MichelGuillaumeJean de Crèvecoeur, and Hugh Henry Brackenridge.
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