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Author Dowling, David Oakey, 1967-

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

Publication Info. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2009]
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Description 1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-211) and index.
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.
Note Print version record.
Subject 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.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
Authors, American -- Economic conditions. (OCoLC)fst00821774
Authors and publishers. (OCoLC)fst00821733
Authorship -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst00822455
Authorship -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00822471
Literature and society. (OCoLC)fst01000096
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Autorschaft.
Buchmarkt.
United States.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Dowling, David Oakey, 1967- Capital letters. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2009 9781587297847 (DLC) 2008041458 (OCoLC)258770300
ISBN 9781587298349 (electronic bk.)
1587298341 (electronic bk.)
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