"As merchants on the 'change'" : the economy of literary coteries, 1807-1864 -- Pt. 1 : Literary New Yorkers -- "An instinct for gold" : Irving's Knickerbockers -- Staff bonds : Bonner's New York ledger -- Pt. 2 : New England circles -- "the section to which we belong" : Emerson's Transcendentalists -- Boston and beyond : Elizabeth Peabody's promotional practice -- Pt. 3 : Political economy : North and South -- Print warriors : Garrison's abolitionists -- Proslavery and the pen : Fitzhugh's apologists -- Conclusion -- The Boston Bellamy Club, Rand's objectivists, and Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Summary:
David Dowling 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. This comprehensive study ranges from Irving's Knickerbockers, Emerson's Transcendentalists, and Garrison's abolitionists to the popular serial fiction writers for Robert Bonner's New York Ledger--to unearth surprising convergences between such seemingly disparate circles.
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