Figuring Authorship in Antebellum America

Author/Contributor(s):	Newbury, Michael
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	09/01/1997
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Through studies of such writers as Hawthorne, Melville, and Stowe, this book shows how the increased demand for salable entertainment fostered a new consciousness of authorship as a commercial and professional mode of work in the first half of the nineteenth century in America.