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Capital letters : authorship in the antebellum literary market /
In the 1840s and 1850s, as the market revolution swept the United States, the world of literature confronted for the first time the gaudy glare of commercial culture. Amid growing technological sophistication and growing artistic rejection of the soullessness of materialism, authorship passed from a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the 1840s and 1850s, as the market revolution swept the United States, the world of literature confronted for the first time the gaudy glare of commercial culture. Amid growing technological sophistication and growing artistic rejection of the soullessness of materialism, authorship passed from an era of patronage and entered the clamoring free market. In this setting, romantic notions of what it meant to be an author came under attack, and authors became professionals. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-211) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781587298349 1587298341 |