Literary partnerships and the marketplace
Subtitle: writers and mentors in nineteenth-century America
By: David Dowling
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780807138472; 9780807138489; 9780807138496; 9780807138502
Subjects: Mentoring of authors; Literature and society; Authors and publishers; Authorship; History and criticism; American literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: "The romance of trade": Washington Irving, John Murray, and genteel capitalism; title: "Dear Duyckinck": the business of Melville's longest literary friendship; title: Davis, Inc.: Rebecca Harding and L. Clarke Davis's reform magnum opus; title: Capital bonds: the compassionate partnership of E. D. E. N. Southworth and Robert Bonner; title: Our wayward son: Emerson and Fuller's tutelage of Henry David Thoreau; title: Sibling strife: Fanny Fern's search for a literary brother; title: "Just like brothers": Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein.