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Capital letters : authorship in the antebellum literary market / / by David Dowling



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Autore: Dowling David Visualizza persona
Titolo: Capital letters : authorship in the antebellum literary market / / by David Dowling Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2009
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (231 p.)
Disciplina: 810.9/003
Soggetto topico: American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Authorship - Economic aspects - United States - History - 19th century
Authorship - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century
Authors, American - 19th century - Economic conditions
Authors and publishers - United States - History - 19th century
Literature and society - United States - History - 19th century
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-211) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 Grass
Part 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
Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Capital letters  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-58729-834-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826553903321
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