Abstract:Theories of the public sphere and of imagined political communities of shared reading have had lasting effects on the theoretical conceptualization of Americanist book history, but they also largely overlook the materiality of texts in ways that early and nineteenth-century American readers and writers did not. This essay reads early and nineteenth-century American texts about paper that show how affiliation and political community could inhere within material texts. Further, it argues that an orientation toward textual materiality can help us reveal publics that are more inclusive of women, nonwhites, and nonelites.

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纸上民族主义：美国早期的物质文本性和社区归属

摘要：公共领域理论和共同阅读的想象政治共同体理论对美国图书史的理论概念化产生了持久的影响，但它们也以早期和 19 世纪美国读者和作家所做的方式在很大程度上忽视了文本的物质性。不是。这篇文章阅读了早期和 19 世纪美国关于纸张的文本，这些文本展示了从属关系和政治共同体是如何存在于物质文本中的。此外，它认为对文本重要性的导向可以帮助我们揭示更包容女性、非白人和非精英的公众。