Industry & the creative mind : the eccentric writer in American literature and entertainment, 1790-1860 / Sandra Tomc.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tomc, Sandra.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

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.

Eccentrics in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Industry and the creative mind

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A new look at the "eccentric author" figure in early nineteenth-century America.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

1. Anywhere but Here: Provincial Literature and the "Miseries of Literary Men"

2. Personifying Vernacular Eccentricity: Joseph Dennie and the American Lounger

3. "Too Much above the Popular Level to Be Well Paid": Edgar Allan Poe, His Peers, and the Rewards of Genius

4. An Idle Industry: Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Workings of Literary Leisure

5. "As Crazy as a Fly in a Drum": The Eccentric Woman Writer

Epilogue

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

0-472-02842-1

1-280-79215-9

9786613702548

OCLC:

801411062

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.4596043