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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dowling, David Oakey, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Authorship--Economic aspects--United States--History--19th century.

Authorship.

Authorship--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.

Authors, American--19th century--Economic conditions.

Authors, American.

Authors and publishers--United States--History--19th century.

Authors and publishers.

Economic conditions.

Authorship--Social aspects.

History.

Authorship--Economic aspects.

United States.

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

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2009]

Contents:

Literature now makes its home with the merchant: the transformation of literary economics, 1820-61

Crusading for social justice. Other and more terrible evils: anticapitalist rhetoric in Harriet Wilson's Our nig and proslavery propaganda ; Alert, adventurous, and unwearied: market values in Thoreau's economies of subsistence living and writing

Transforming the market. Capital sentiment: Fanny Fern's transformation of the gentleman publisher's code ; Transcending capital: Whitman's poet figure and the marketing of Leaves of grass

Worrying the woman question. Dollarish all over: Rebecca Harding Davis's market success and the economic perils of transcendentalism ; Satirizing the spheres: refiguring and authorship in Melville

Dreams deferred: ambition and the mass market in Melville and King.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-211) and index.

ISBN:

9781587297847

1587297841

OCLC:

258770300