| Description |
1 online resource (230 pages) |
| Series |
Oxford Studies in American Literary History Ser |
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Oxford Studies in American Literary History Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; The Moral Economies of American Authorship Reputation, Scandal, and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace; Copyright; Dedication; { Contents }; { Acknowledgments }; Introduction: Moral Markets; {1} Fenimore Cooper, Property, and the Trials of National Authorship; Property's Publics; Literary Offenses; or, Mr. Cooper and Mr. Effingham; Fiction's Properties; (Trans)national Disappointments; Recuperation; {2} Paratexts and the Making of Moral Authority; Prefacing Reputation; Abolition's Scandals: The Case of Mary Prince; Authorship, Evidence, and Art; The Status of Secrets |
| Summary |
The Moral Economies of American Authorship argues that the moral character of authors became a kind of literary property within mid-nineteenth-century America's expanding print marketplace, shaping the construction, promotion, and reception of texts as well as of literary reputations |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Reputation.
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Reputation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190274030 |
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0190274034 |
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