LEADER 03586nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910826553903321 005 20231114135224.0 010 $a1-58729-834-1 035 $a(CKB)2560000000053900 035 $a(EBL)843220 035 $a(OCoLC)692336754 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000413501 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11305591 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413501 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10381167 035 $a(PQKB)11673820 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC843220 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL843220 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10436216 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000053900 100 $a20080925d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCapital letters$b[electronic resource] $eauthorship in the antebellum literary market /$fby David Dowling 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (231 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-58729-784-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [199]-211) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 Grass 327 $aPart 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; Index 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAuthorship$xEconomic aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAuthorship$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAuthors, American$y19th century$xEconomic conditions 606 $aAuthors and publishers$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAuthorship$xEconomic aspects$xHistory 615 0$aAuthorship$xSocial aspects$xHistory 615 0$aAuthors, American$xEconomic conditions. 615 0$aAuthors and publishers$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 676 $a810.9/003 700 $aDowling$b David Oakey$f1967-$01623221 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826553903321 996 $aCapital letters$94100897 997 $aUNINA