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Author:

Dowling, David Oakey, 1967-

Title:

Literary partnerships and the marketplace : writers and mentors in nineteenth-century America / David Dowling.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

240 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Authors and publishers--United States--History--19th century.
Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.
Authorship--History--United States--History--19th century.
Mentoring of authors--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"The romance of trade": Washington Irving, John Murray, and genteel capitalism -- "Dear Duyckinck": the business of Melville's longest literary friendship -- Davis, Inc.: Rebecca Harding and L. Clarke Davis's reform magnum opus -- Capital bonds: the compassionate partnership of E. D. E. N. Southworth and Robert Bonner -- Our wayward son: Emerson and Fuller's tutelage of Henry David Thoreau -- Sibling strife: Fanny Fern's search for a literary brother -- "Just like brothers": Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein.

ISBN:

0807138509 (epub)
9780807138502 (epub)
0807138495 (pdf)
9780807138496 (pdf)
0807138487 (mobi)
9780807138489 (mobi)
0807138479 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807138472 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)716069579

LCCN:

2011015346

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)