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The Moral Economies of American Authorship : Reputation, Scandal, and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace.
The Moral Economies of American Authorship argues that the moral character of authors became a kind of literary property within mid-nineteenth-century America's expanding print marketplace, shaping the construction, promotion, and reception of texts as well as of literary reputations.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, Incorporated,
2015.
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| Colección: | Oxford Studies in American Literary History Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; The Moral Economies of American Authorship Reputation, Scandal, and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace; Copyright; Dedication; { Contents }; { Acknowledgments }; Introduction: Moral Markets; {1} Fenimore Cooper, Property, and the Trials of National Authorship; Property's Publics; Literary Offenses; or, Mr. Cooper and Mr. Effingham; Fiction's Properties; (Trans)national Disappointments; Recuperation; {2} Paratexts and the Making of Moral Authority; Prefacing Reputation; Abolition's Scandals: The Case of Mary Prince; Authorship, Evidence, and Art; The Status of Secrets