03586nam 2200637Ia 450 991079157700332120231114135224.01-58729-834-1(CKB)2560000000053900(EBL)843220(OCoLC)692336754(SSID)ssj0000413501(PQKBManifestationID)11305591(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413501(PQKBWorkID)10381167(PQKB)11673820(MiAaPQ)EBC843220(Au-PeEL)EBL843220(CaPaEBR)ebr10436216(EXLCZ)99256000000005390020080925d2009 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCapital letters[electronic resource] authorship in the antebellum literary market /by David DowlingIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20091 online resource (231 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-58729-784-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-211) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Literature Now Makes Its Home with the Merchant: The Transformation of Literary Economics, 1820-61; Part 1: Crusading for Social Justice; 1. Other and More Terrible Evils: Anticapitalist Rhetoric in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig and Proslavery Propaganda; 2. Alert, Adventurous, and Unwearied: Market Values in Thoreau's Economies of Subsistence Living and Writing; Part 2: Transforming the Market; 3. Capital Sentiment: Fanny Fern's Transformation of the Gentleman Publisher's Code; 4. Transcending Capital: Whitman's Poet Figure and the Marketing of Leaves of GrassPart 3: Worrying the Woman Question 5. Dollarish All Over: Rebecca Harding Davis's Market Success and the Economic Perils of Transcendentalism; 6. Satirizing the Spheres: Refiguring Gender and Authorship in Melville; Dreams Deferred: Ambition and the Mass Market in Melville and King; Notes; Works Cited; IndexIn the 1840's and 1850's, as the market revolution swept the United States, the world of literature confronted for the first time the gaudy glare of commercial culture. Amid growing technological sophistication and growing artistic rejection of the soullessness of materialism, authorship passed from an era of patronage and entered the clamoring free market. In this setting, romantic notions of what it meant to be an author came under attack, and authors became professionals.American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismAuthorshipEconomic aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAuthorshipSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAuthors, American19th centuryEconomic conditionsAuthors and publishersUnited StatesHistory19th centuryLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.AuthorshipEconomic aspectsHistoryAuthorshipSocial aspectsHistoryAuthors, AmericanEconomic conditions.Authors and publishersHistoryLiterature and societyHistory810.9/003Dowling David Oakey1967-1582647MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791577003321Capital letters3865241UNINA