Capital letters authorship in the antebellum literary market - Dowling, David Oakey (University of Iowa Press, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-211) and index
Literature now makes its home with the merchant: the transformation of literary economics, 1820-61 -- Crusading for social justice. Other and more terrible evils: anticapitalist rhetoric in Harriet Wilson's Our nig and proslavery propaganda ; Alert, adventurous, and unwearied: market values in Thoreau's economies of subsistence living and writing -- Transforming the market. Capital sentiment: Fanny Fern's transformation of the gentleman publisher's code ; Transcending capital: Whitman's poet figure and the marketing of Leaves of grass -- Worrying the woman question. Dollarish all over: Rebecca Harding Davis's market success and the economic perils of transcendentalism ; Satirizing the spheres: refiguring and authorship in Melville -- Dreams deferred: ambition and the mass market in Melville and King