Fever Reading: Affect and Reading Badly in the Early American Public Sphere

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 Fever Reading Becoming Modern New Nineteenth-Century Studies series editors Sarah Way Sherman Department of English University of New Hampshire Janet Aikins Yount Department of English University of New Hampshire Rohan McWilliam Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge, England Janet Polasky Department of History University of New Hampshire This book series maps the complexity of historical change and assesses the formation of ideas, movements, and institutions crucial to our own time by publishing books that examine the emergence of modernity in North America and Europe. Set primarily but not exclusively in the nineteenth century, the series shifts attention from modernity’s twentieth-century forms to its earlier moments of uncertain and often disputed construction. Seeking books of interest to scholars on both sides of the Atlantic, it thereby encourages the expansion of nineteenthcentury studies and the exploration of more global patterns of development. For a complete list of books available in this series, see www.upne.com Beth L. Lueck, Brigitte Bailey, and Lucinda L. Damon-Bach, editors, Transatlantic Women: Essays on Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Great Britain Michael Millner, Fever Reading: Affect and Reading Badly in the Early American Public Sphere Nancy Siegel, editor, The Cultured Canvas: New Perspectives on American Landscape Painting Ilya Parkins and Elizabeth M. Sheehan, editors, Cultures of Femininity in Modern Fashion Brian Joseph Martin, Napoleonic Friendship: Military Fraternity, Intimacy, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France Andrew Taylor, Thinking America: New England Intellectuals and the Varieties of American Identity  [ 3.137.185.180] Project MUSE (2024-04-20 03:23 GMT)  Michael Millner Fever Reading Affect and Reading Badly in the Early American Public Sphere university of new hampshire press durham, new hampshire university of new hampshire press An imprint of University Press of New England www.upne.com© 2012 University of New Hampshire All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed by Eric M. Brooks Typeset in Monticello by Passumpsic Publishing University Press of New England is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. For permission to reproduce any of the material in this book, contact Permissions, University Press of New England, One Court Street, Suite 250, Lebanon NH 03766; or visit www.upne.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Millner, Michael. Fever reading: affect and reading badly in the early American public sphere / Michael Millner. pages cm.—(Becoming modern) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-1-61168-242-7 (cloth: alk. paper)— isbn 978-1-61168-243-4 (pbk.: alk. paper)— isbn 978-1-61168-244-1 (ebook) 1. Books and reading—United States—History. I. Title. z1003.2.m55 2012 028.9—dc23 2012003858 5 4 3 2 1 ...