The Business of Literary Circles in Nineteenth-Century America

by David Dowling

Book Overview

The Business of Literary Circles in Nineteenth-Century America explores the economics of professional authorship-the contiguity between business practice and aesthetic principle-in the most significant literary circles of the American nineteenth century, from Irving's Knickerbockers, Emerson's Transcendentalists, and Garrison's abolitionists to Robert Bonner's New York Ledger popular fiction writers, and George Fitzhugh's proslavery pundits. Casting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230110460
• ISBN13: 9780230110465
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.5" x 8.1"