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Leon Jackson - The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in Antebellum America - 9780804757058 - V9780804757058
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The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in Antebellum America

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Description for The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in Antebellum America Hardback. The Business of Letters is a broad-ranging study of authorial economics in antebellum America that describes writers' exchange practices as profoundly rooted in, and constitutive of, social bonds. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 603.

Traditionally, scholars of authorship in antebellum America have approached their subject through the lens of professionalization, exploring the ways in which writing moved away from amateurism and into the capitalist marketplace. The Business of Letters breaks new ground by challenging the dominant professionalization model, with its vision of a single literary marketplace. Leon Jackson shows how antebellum authors participated in a variety of different economies including patronage, charity, gift exchange, and competition—each of which had its own rules and reciprocities, its own ethics and exchange rituals, and sometimes even its own currencies. Examining a variety of canonical and non-canonical authors, ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
602g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804757058
SKU
V9780804757058
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Ref
99-50

About Leon Jackson
Leon Jackson is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina.

Reviews for The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in Antebellum America
"I have no question but that Jackson has written a fine book, one that recovers for readers in the twenty-first century the varied rewards for writers in the nineteenth century. He is a superb and patient researcher with a particular sensitivity to the social context of literary achievement. The Business of Letters is a work of impressive emulation, well warranting ... Read more

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