The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800 - 1870


This copy of The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800 - 1870: The Papers of William Charvat is a HB with a DJ. It is edited by Matthew J. Bruccoil and has a foreword by Howard Mumford Jones. It was published by Ohio State University Press in 1968. Condition: Very Good/Good--pages are crisp and clean; binding tight; covers in nice shape; DJ shows slight handling, has a couple of small tears, and has a little sunfading? along the spine.

This is one of several books that belonged to my late husband. He was a retired English professor.

This study focuses on the complex relations between author, publisher and contemporary reading public in 19th-century America; in particular, the emergence of Irving and Cooper as America's first successful literary entrepreneurs, how Poe's and Melville's successes and failures affected their writing, the popularization of poetry in the 1830s and 1840s, the role of the literary magazine in the 1840s and 1850s, and the beginnings of book promotion. It pays particular attention to the way social and economic forces helped to shape literary works.

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