Literary partnerships and the marketplace : writers and mentors in nineteenth-century America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dowling, David Oakey, 1967-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2011]
Subjects:	Mentoring of authors > United States. Authorship > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century. Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century. Authors and publishers > United States > History > 19th century. American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

"The romance of trade": Washington Irving, John Murray, and genteel capitalism
"Dear Duyckinck": the business of Melville's longest literary friendship
Davis, Inc.: Rebecca Harding and L. Clarke Davis's reform magnum opus
Capital bonds: the compassionate partnership of E. D. E. N. Southworth and Robert Bonner
Our wayward son: Emerson and Fuller's tutelage of Henry David Thoreau
Sibling strife: Fanny Fern's search for a literary brother
"Just like brothers": Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein.