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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, including women, slaves, and artisans, and drawing on theoretical approaches from anthropology, sociology, social history, and literary criticism, Jackson reveals authors to have been social agents whose acts of authorial exchange involved them in dense webs of community. The decisive transformation of the antebellum period, he concludes, was not from amateurism to professionalism, but, rather, from socially embedded exchange to impersonally conducted business.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Pełny tytuł: Business of Letters
• Podtytuł: Authorial Economies in Antebellum America
• Autor: Leon Jackson
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Twarda
• Liczba stron: 200
• EAN: 9780804757058
• ISBN: 0804757054
• ID: 04718333
• Wydawca: Stanford University Press
• Waga: 682 g
• Wymiary: 159 × 236 × 30 mm
• Data wydania: 25. November 2007

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