Figuring Authorship in Antebellum America |
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| Author:
| Newbury, Michael |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8047-2858-4 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1997 |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $75.00 |
Book Description:
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Through studies of such writers as Hawthorne, Melville, and Stowe, this book shows how the increased demand for salable entertainment fostered a new consciousness of authorship as a commercial and professional mode of work in the first half of the nineteenth century in America.
Through studies of such writers as Hawthorne, Melville, and Stowe, this book shows how the increased demand for salable entertainment fostered a new consciousness of authorship as a commercial and professional mode of work in the first half of the nineteenth century in America.