Pt. 1. Literary Culture. 1. Cultural Context. 2. Typee: (Re)Making the Best-Seller. 3. Reader Expectations and Innovation in Omoo and Mardi. 4. Writer and Community in Redburn and White-Jacket -- Pt. 2. Critical Debates. 5. Originality: The Case of Moby-Dick. 6. (Un)Popularity: Moby-Dick and Pierre -- Pt. 3. The Periodical Marketplace. 7. Marketplace Conditions. 8. Creative Reliance: Periodical Practices in the Magazine Fiction -- Pt. 4. New Audiences, New Forms. 9. Writing the American Novel: The Confidence-Man. 10. The Move to Poetry
Notes
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-268) and index