Capital letters : authorship in the antebellum literary market / by David Dowling.

Author/creator Dowling, David
Format Book
Publication InfoIowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2009.
Description217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [199]-211) and index.
LCCN 2008041458
ISBN9781587297847 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1587297841 (cloth : alk. paper)