Literary partnerships and the marketplace [electronic resource] : writers and mentors in nineteenth-century America / David Dowling.
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TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (240 p. )ISBN: - 9780807138496
- 9780807138502
- Mentoring of authors -- United States
- Authorship -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Authors and publishers -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- 810.9/003 22
- PS201 .D696 2011
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.
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