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967267
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b721637
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Dowling, David Oakey,1967-
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| Title & Author
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Capital letters : : authorship in the antebellum literary market /\ by David Dowling.
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| Publication Statement
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Iowa City :: University of Iowa Press,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (217 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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1587298341
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: 9781587298349
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1587297841
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9781587297847
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-211) and index.
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| Contents
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Literature now makes its home with the merchant: the transformation of literary economics, 1820-61 -- Crusading for social justice. Other and more terrible evils: anticapitalist rhetoric in Harriet Wilson's Our nig and proslavery propaganda ; Alert, adventurous, and unwearied: market values in Thoreau's economies of subsistence living and writing -- Transforming the market. Capital sentiment: Fanny Fern's transformation of the gentleman publisher's code ; Transcending capital: Whitman's poet figure and the marketing of Leaves of grass -- Worrying the woman question. Dollarish all over: Rebecca Harding Davis's market success and the economic perils of transcendentalism ; Satirizing the spheres: refiguring and authorship in Melville -- Dreams deferred: ambition and the mass market in Melville and King.
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In the 1840s and 1850s, as the market revolution swept the United States, the world of literature confronted for the first time the gaudy glare of commercial culture. Amid growing technological sophistication and growing artistic rejection of the soullessness of materialism, authorship passed from an era of patronage and entered the clamoring free market. In this setting, romantic notions of what it meant to be an author came under attack, and authors became professionals.
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American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Authors and publishers-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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Authors, American-- 19th century-- Economic conditions.
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Authorship-- Economic aspects-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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Authorship-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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American literature.
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Authors and publishers.
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Authors, American-- Economic conditions.
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Authorship-- Economic aspects.
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Authorship-- Social aspects.
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Autorschaft
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Buchmarkt
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Literature and society.
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United States.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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810.9/003
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| LC Classification
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PS201.D69 2009eb
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