Industry & the creative mind : the eccentric writer in American literature and entertainment, 1790-1860 /
Tomc, Sandra.
Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Anywhere by here: provincial literature and the "miseries of literary men" -- Personifying vernacular eccentricity: Joseph Dennie and the American Lounger -- "Too much above the popular level to be well paid":  Edgar Allen Poe, his peers, and the reward of genius -- An idle industry: Nathaniel Parker Willis and the workings of literary leisure -- "As crazy as a fly in a drum": the eccentric woman writer.
American literature
Eccentric literature
Literature and society
Eccentrics in literature.