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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 653–655.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Martin T. Buinicki The Difficult Art of Giving: Patronage, Philanthropy, and the American Literary Market . By Francesca Sawaya . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2014 . ix, 264 pp. Cloth, $55.00 ; e-book available. Captains of Charity: The Writing and Wages...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 863–866.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Leonard Cassuto Capital Letters: Authorship in the Antebellum Literary Market . By Dowling David . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2009 . 217 pp. $39.95 . The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing . By McGurl Mark . Cambridge : Harvard Univ...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2015
... Revolution and the United States. This sensational gothic novel invokes the Haitian Revolution even as its paratexts self-consciously worry about its place in the New York literary scene. The novel comments on the rise of a transatlantic literary market in which unfamiliar and aspiring figures such as D’Arcy...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 505–532.
Published: 01 September 2012
... materials of that economic sector not as a distant or vicarious consumer but, following his visit to the Old Berkshire Mill in Dalton in the winter of 1851, as a specialized purchaser. Instead of treating paper as a metonym of literary-market exchange, then, Thompson’s essay examines Melville’s experience...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 727–759.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Katie McGettigan Abstract This article uses Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s experience in the transatlantic literary market to analyze how British publishers constructed antebellum American literature as a cultural commodity and an aesthetically valuable tradition through their material texts...
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“That Friendship of the Whites”: Patronage, Philanthropy, and Charles Chesnutt's The Colonel's Dream
American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 775–801.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Francesca Sawaya This essay focuses on the writings of Charles Chesnutt in order to rethink the expressivist and democratizing assumptions about the market that literary historians in the United States have borrowed from classical economics. In particular, it analyzes the discourse of friendship...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 769–795.
Published: 01 December 2012
... women writers in the post–Civil War era; more specifically, and perhaps more importantly, it positions one woman’s composition, publication, and circulation practices within a literary marketplace that paradoxically asked women poets to be simultaneously of and beyond the market—amateurs...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2018
... introduced into the literary landscape a complicated view of what readers and writers increasingly saw as a suspect “free” market. Writers such as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, and John Greenleaf Whittier imagined a world of goods haunted by the touch of enslaved laborers—goods...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 607–641.
Published: 01 December 2024
... difference in overlapping and conflicting ways. As vernacular sociologists, these authors participated in the emerging social science discourses that were tasked with alleviating the social and economic crises generated by the market revolution; in so doing, they offered literary and social analyses...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 27–54.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Will Norman Abstract In this article I argue for a new understanding of the term hard-boiled by tracing the relationship between literary style and historical shifts in intellectual labor in the mid-twentieth-century United States. Novels representing the culture industry, such as Raymond...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 119–140.
Published: 01 March 2003
... he envi-
sioned for himself, he has much to teach contemporary scholars. A
shrewd reader of the literary market’s relation to social difference,
Harland attempted to attach the cultural capital of authorship to what...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 865–870.
Published: 01 December 2007
... on the frontier in the Otsego Lake
region of New York to his departure for Europe in 1826. Franklin suggests
that through a carefully balanced combination of “literary acumen” and “busi-
ness acumen,” Cooper “invented the very career of the American writer”
(xi). By marketing his novels...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 305–331.
Published: 01 June 2014
... the sentimental
logic of the “priceless” object, an object whose lack of economic value
substantiates an alternative economy—an economy of feeling. On the
other hand, this logic, as we will see, obscures the process of child
elimination crucial to the literary and cultural marketing of an econ-
omy...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 219–244.
Published: 01 June 2022
... asking for help in the promotion and sale of Jacobs’s book. She asked these friends to speak to the merits of Incidents in their literary circles and to press local booksellers to stock it on their shelves. Though these gift-giving practices were quite common in the multivalent antebellum book market...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 151–182.
Published: 01 March 2019
... to a “winner-take-all” labor market with a few superstar earners and many struggling unknowns. Both Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick used their respective versions of The Shining to describe the conditions of the 1970s media industries. Each told the story of a would-be middle-class writer grappling...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 779–805.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Madhu Dubey Since the 1970s, African American novelists have persistently drawn on antirealist genres (including science fiction, fantasy, ghost stories, and magic realism) to revisit the history of slavery. Focusing on literary and mass-market fiction by authors such as Stephen Barnes, David...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 381–410.
Published: 01 September 2024
... regime required was, per Robinson, “a makeshift patchwork masquerading as memory and the immutable” (128). This new racial regime of financialized “status property” is the same one that gave us the categories of modern literary study, like character. New markets in private credit, as forms...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 643–672.
Published: 01 December 2007
... a dialectic between
democracy and the literary marketplace, focusing on two movements
in antebellum print culture. First, authors and critics made concerted
efforts to erase the operations of the market and to circulate in their
place a story of democratic literary flowering; and second, controver...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 87–114.
Published: 01 March 2021
... collections to considerable critical attention and strong sales. Of course, Wallace was himself a beneficiary of this new market; he published his first novel while in graduate school. In the cover note sent to literary agent Bonnie Nadell along with a chapter of The Broom of the System (1987), Wallace...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 55–82.
Published: 01 March 2018
...: Authorship in the Antebellum Literary Market . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . Eisler Benita , ed. 1998 . Introduction to The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women (1840–1845), 13 – 41 . New York : W. W. Norton . Farley Harriet . 1840 . “ Factory Girls .” Lowell...
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