Title Correspondent colorings : Melville in the marketplace / Sheila Post-Lauria

Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [1996] ©1996

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Description xv, 276 pages ; 23 cm Contents 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 Subject Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Books and reading. Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Technique. Authors and readers -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Journalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Literary form -- History -- 19th century. Literary form. Fiction -- Technique. Popular literature -- Technique. LC no. 95037247 ISBN 1558490027 (cloth : alk. paper) 1558490035 (paperback: alk. paper)

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