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Literary partnerships and the marketplace

Dowling, David Oakey, 1967-

Literary partnerships and the marketplace writers and mentors in nineteenth-century America / [electronic resource] : David Dowling. - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (240 p. ) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-231) and index.

"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.

9780807138496 9780807138502


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


Electronic books.

PS201 / .D696 2011

810.9/003