num_pages: 320
description: A study of five Americans--Franklin, Irving, Garrison, Emerson, and Dickinson--who wrote about being writers and their confrontation with the emerging commercial reality of the literary marketplace. 20 illustrations.
language: English
title: Figures of Speech: American Writers and the Literary Marketplace, from Benjamin Franklin to Emily Dickinson
titlecomplete: Figures of Speech: American Writers and the Literary Marketplace, from Benjamin Franklin to Emily Dickinson
ratings_count: 1
publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press