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The Moral economies of American auth...

Ryan, Susan M., (Ph. D.)

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The Moral economies of American authorship : = reputation, scandal, and the nineteenth-century literary marketplace /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Moral economies of American authorship :/ Susan M. Ryan.
Reminder of title:	reputation, scandal, and the nineteenth-century literary marketplace /
remainder title:	Reputation, scandal, and the nineteenth-century literary marketplace
Author:	Ryan, Susan M.,
Published:	New York, NY :Oxford University Press, : 2016.,
Description:	x, 217 p. :ill. ;25 cm.
Subject:	American literature - History and criticism. - 19th century -
ISBN:	9780190274023

The Moral economies of American authorship : = reputation, scandal, and the nineteenth-century literary marketplace /
Ryan, Susan M.,Ph. D.

The Moral economies of American authorship :reputation, scandal, and the nineteenth-century literary marketplace /Reputation, scandal, and the nineteenth-century literary marketplaceSusan M. Ryan. - New York, NY :Oxford University Press,2016. - x, 217 p. :ill. ;25 cm. - Oxford studies in American literary history.. - Oxford studies in American literary history.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-212) and index.

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. Using a wide range of printed materials--prefaces, dedications, and other paratexts as well as book reviews, advertisements, and editorials that appeared in the era's magazines and newspapers--The Moral Economies of American Authorship recovers and analyzes the circulation of authors' moral currency, attending not only to the marketing of apparently ironclad status but also to the period's not-infrequent author scandals and ensuing attempts at recuperation. These preoccupations prove to be more than a historical curiosity-they prefigure the complex (if often disavowed) interdependence of authorial character and literary value in contemporary scholarship and pedagogy. Combining broad investigations into the marketing and reception of books with case studies that analyze the construction and repair of particular authors' reputations (e.g., James Fenimore Cooper, Mary Prince, Elizabeth Keckley, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and E.D.E.N. Southworth), the book constructs a genealogy of the field's investments in and uses of authorial character. In the nineteenth century's deployment of moral character as a signal element in the marketing, reception, and canonization of books and authors, we see how biography both vexed and created literary status, adumbrating our own preoccupations while demonstrating how malleable-and how recuperable-moral authority could be.

ISBN: 9780190274023US69.00

LCCN: 2015020484Subjects--Topical Terms:

543701
American literature
--History and criticism.--19th century

LC Class. No.: PS217.P45 / .R93 2016

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