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1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-211) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Authorship -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Authorship -- Economic aspects. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Authorship. |
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Authorship -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Authorship -- Social aspects. |
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Authors, American -- 19th century -- Economic conditions.
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Authors, American. |
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Economic conditions. |
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Authors and publishers -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Authors and publishers. |
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and society. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dowling, David Oakey, 1967- Capital letters. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2009 9781587297847 (DLC) 2008041458 (OCoLC)258770300 |
| ISBN |
9781587298349 (electronic book) |
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1587298341 (electronic book) |
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9781587297847 |
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1587297841 |
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