American Romanticism and the Marketplace
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: January 15, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780226293967
Subjects: Literary studies: general; American Prose; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; English; Literary Criticism; North America; American - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; 1783-1850; 19th century; American literature; Authors, American; Biography; History and criticism; United States
First sentence: In Emerson's essay "Wealth" there appears a glowing account of peaches destined for the market: "When the farmer's peaches are taken from under the tree and carried into town, they have a new look and a hundredfold value over the fruit which grew on the same bough and lies fulsomely on the ground.