Table of Contents

Philip Goldstein and James L. Machor: Introduction: Reception Study: Achievements and New Directions
I. (Re)Theorizing Reception Study
Patrocinio Schweickart: "Understanding an Other: Reading as a Receptive Form of Communicative Action"
Steven Mailloux: "Judging and Hoping: Rhetorical Effects of Reading about Reading."
Jack Bratich: "Activating the Multitude: Audience Powers and Cultural Studies"
Tony Bennett: "Habitus Clivé: Aesthetics and Politics in the Work of Pierre Bourdieu"
II. Texts, Authors, and the Receptions of Literature
James L. Machor: "The American Reception of Melville's Short Fiction in the 1850s"
Kenneth Roemer: "Placing Readers at the Forefront of Nowhere: Reception and Utopian Literature"
Philip Goldstein: "Richard Wright's Native Son: From Naturalist Protest to Modernist Liberation and Beyond"
Amy Blair: "Main Street Reading Main Street"
Leonard Diepeveen: "Learning from Philistines: Suspicion, Refusing to Read,and the Rise of Dubious Modernism"
Marcial González: "Reception and Authenticity: Danny Santiago's Famous All Over Town"
Charlotte Templin:
III. Books, Print Culture, and Historical Sites of Reception
Ellen Gruber Garvey: "The Power of Recirculation: Scrapbooks and the Reception of the Nineteenth-Century Press"
David Paul Nord: "Accuracy or Fair Play? Complaining About Newspapers in Early Twentieth-Century New York"
Barbara Hochman: "Sentiment without Tears: Uncle Tom's Cabin as History in the 1890s"
IV. Media and Cultural Studies
Janet Staiger: "Kiss Me Deadly: Cold War Threats from Spillane to Aldrich, NY to LA, and the Mafia to the H-Bomb"
Rhiannon Bury: "Textual Poaching or Game Keeping? A Comparative Study of Two Six Feet Under Internet Fan Forums"
Andrea Press and Camille Johnson-Yale: "Political Talk and the Flow of Ambient Television: Women Watching Oprah in an African-American Hair Salon"
V. Retrospective Prospects
Janice Radway: "What's the Matter with Reception Studies? Some Thoughts on the Disciplinary Origins, Conceptual Restraints, and Persistent Viability of a Paradigm"
Toby Miller: "The Reception Deception"