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Record Nr.

UNINA9911154595703321

Autore

Tomc Sandra

Titolo

Industry & the creative mind : the eccentric writer in American literature and entertainment, 1790-1860 / / Sandra Tomc

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2012

ISBN

0-472-02842-1

1-280-79215-9

9786613702548

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/357

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Eccentric literature - History and criticism

Literature and society - United States - History - 19th century

Eccentrics in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Anywhere but Here: Provincial Literature and the "Miseries of Literary Men" -- 2. Personifying Vernacular Eccentricity: Joseph Dennie and the American Lounger -- 3. "Too Much above the Popular Level to Be Well Paid": Edgar Allan Poe, His Peers, and the Rewards of Genius -- 4. An Idle Industry: Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Workings of Literary Leisure -- 5. "As Crazy as a Fly in a Drum": The Eccentric Woman Writer -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

A new look at the "eccentric author" figure in early nineteenth-century America.