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Industry & the creative mind : the eccentric writer in American literature and entertainment, 1790-1860 / Sandra Tomc.
LIBRA PS217.C85 T66 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tomc, Sandra.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Eccentric literature--History and criticism.
- Eccentric literature.
- Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.
- Literature and society.
- United States.
- History.
- Eccentrics in literature.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Industry and the creative mind
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- 1 Anywhere but Here
- Provincial Literature and the "Miseries of Literary Men" 25
- 2 Personifying Vernacular Eccentricity
- Joseph Dennie and the American Lounger 59
- 3 "Too Much above the Popular Level to Be Well Paid"
- Edgar Allan Poe, His Peers, and the Rewards of Genius 103
- 4 An Idle Industry
- Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Workings of Literary Leisure 154
- 5 "As Crazy as a Fly in a Drum"
- The Eccentric Woman Writer 193.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780472118366
- 0472118366
- 9780472028429
- 0472028421
- OCLC:
- 768168528
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