Susan M Ryan

The Moral Economies of American Authorship

Reputation, Scandal, and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780190274023
• ISBN-10: 0190274026
• Artikelnr.: 47864641

Autorenporträt

Susan M. Ryan is Associate Professor of English at the University of Louisville. She is the author of The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Moral Markets
Chapter 1. Fenimore Cooper, Property, and the Trials of National Authorship
Chapter 2. Paratexts and the Making of Moral Authority
Chapter 3. Frederick Douglass's Marketing of Moral Repair
Chapter 4. The Currency of Reputation
Chapter 5. Stowe, Byron, and the Art of Scandal
Epilogue: Reputation Redux
Notes
Index