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Capital letters [[electronic resource] ] : authorship in the antebellum literary market / / by David Dowling
| Capital letters [[electronic resource] ] : authorship in the antebellum literary market / / by David Dowling |
| Autore | Dowling David Oakey <1967-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2009 |
| 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 |
| ISBN | 1-58729-834-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791577003321 |
Dowling David Oakey <1967->
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| Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Chasing the white whale [[electronic resource] ] : the Moby-Dick marathon ; or, what Melville means today / / by David Dowling
| Chasing the white whale [[electronic resource] ] : the Moby-Dick marathon ; or, what Melville means today / / by David Dowling |
| Autore | Dowling David Oakey <1967-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (254 p.) |
| Disciplina | 813/.3 |
| Soggetto topico |
Sea stories, American - History and criticism
Whaling in literature Whales in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-58729-940-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Shipping out -- That everlasting itch: the allure of whaling and marathon reading -- Queequeg's ink: the dilemma of reading the inscrutable -- Readers and crew -- Captain and mates: honored readers -- Harpooners and sailors: the unsung readers -- Twenty-five tumultuous hours -- Survival: enduring the sledge-hammering seas of the soul -- The breach: exulting in the whale. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458575203321 |
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Dowling David Oakey <1967->
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| Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Chasing the white whale [[electronic resource] ] : the Moby-Dick marathon ; or, what Melville means today / / by David Dowling
| Chasing the white whale [[electronic resource] ] : the Moby-Dick marathon ; or, what Melville means today / / by David Dowling |
| Autore | Dowling David Oakey <1967-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (254 p.) |
| Disciplina | 813/.3 |
| Soggetto topico |
Sea stories, American - History and criticism
Whaling in literature Whales in literature |
| ISBN | 1-58729-940-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Shipping out -- That everlasting itch: the allure of whaling and marathon reading -- Queequeg's ink: the dilemma of reading the inscrutable -- Readers and crew -- Captain and mates: honored readers -- Harpooners and sailors: the unsung readers -- Twenty-five tumultuous hours -- Survival: enduring the sledge-hammering seas of the soul -- The breach: exulting in the whale. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791569803321 |
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Dowling David Oakey <1967->
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| Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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