In this collection of studies of the relationships between various authors and their chief editor or publisher, Dowling (U. of Iowa) examines the nature as well as the details of these relationships.
In the late 1830s, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, lecturer, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement, publicly called for a radical nationwide vocational reinvention, and an idealis
The Business of Literary Circles in Nineteenth-Century America ?explores the economics of professional authorship—the contiguity between business practice and aesthetic principle—in the most significa
