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02783aam a2200445 a 4500 001 D2371512EE4E11E0BFB3B9EB6AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20111004010313 008 100727s2011 nyu 001 0 eng 010 $a 2010030068 020 $a 0230110460 020 $a 9780230110465 035 $a (OCoLC)650827370 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d YDXCP $d CDX $d BWX $d IUA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS201 $b .D688 2011 082 00 $a 810.9/003 $2 22 100 1 $a Dowling, David Oakey, $d 1967- 245 1 $a The business of literary circles in nineteenth-century America / $c David Dowling. 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a New York : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2011. 300 $a viii, 296 p. ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Nineteenth-century major lives and letters 500 $a Includes index. 505 0 $a "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. 520 $a 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. 650 0 $a American literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Authorship $x History $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Authorship $x History $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Authors and publishers $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 19th century $x Economic conditions. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 856 41 $3 Table of contents only $u http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1101/2010030068-t.html 830 0 $a Nineteenth-century major lives and letters. 941 $a 3 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718090231.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200103020439.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180126033822.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D2371512EE4E11E0BFB3B9EB6AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search