Download or read book A Fictive People written by Ronald J. Zboray and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text aims to explode two notions that are commonplace in American cultural histories of the 19th century: that the spread of literature was a simple force for the democratization of taste, and that there was a body of 19th-century literature that reflected "a nation of readers."