Capital letters
Subtitle: authorship in the antebellum literary market
By: by David Dowling.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781587297847
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Literature now makes its home with the merchant: the transformation of literary economics, 1820-1861; title: Crusading for social justice. Other and more terrible evils: anticapitalist rhetoric in Harriet Wilson's Our nig and proslavery propaganda; title: Alert, adventurous, and unwearied: market values in Thoreau's economies of subsistence living and writing; title: Transforming the market. Capital sentiment: Fanny Fern's transformation of the gentleman publisher's code; title: Transcending capital: Whitman's poet figure and the marketing of Leaves of grass; title: Worrying the woman question. Dollarish all over: Rebecca Harding Davis's market success and the economic perils of transcendentalism; title: Parlors, sofas, carpets, and fine cambrics: refiguring gender, domesticity, and authorship in Melville; title: Dreams deferred: ambition and the mass market in Melville and King.