{"product_id":"the-business-of-letters-9780804757058","title":"The Business of Letters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Business of Letters\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 scholarly approbation.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe Edgar Allan Poe Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jackson's monograph is by turns imaginative, thoroughly researched, and deftly realized.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Leon Jackson's clear-headed and rich analysis of the complex cultural and economic behaviors that constituted authorship in the decades prior to the Civil War compellingly redirects current discussions of American literary authorship and will have a significant impact on a large and growing body of scholarship.\" -- Jeffrey Groves * Harvey Mudd College *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Business of Letters\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compelling prospect on the American literary landscape from independence to the Civil War. With a capacious view of authors, editors, and readers in a changing social and economic setting, this work is the most theoretically sophisticated and historically informed that I have read in years.\" -- Robert A. Gross * University of Connecticut, Storrs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Acknowledgments\t\t\t\t\t\t  \t\t000  Preface: The Business of The Business of Letters\t\t\t  \t000  One\tFrom the Profession of Authorship to the Business of Letters  \t000  \t\tThe Professional Paradigm\t\t\t  \t\t000  \t\tToward a Theory of Multiple Economies\t\t  \t000  \t\tEconomies Embedded and Disembedded\t\t  \t000  \t\tThe Disembedding of the Economy\t\t  \t\t000  Two\tThe Black Bard and the Black Market\t\t\t  \t000  \t\tGeorge Moses Horton and the Black Market\t  \t\t000  \t\t\"Bid the Vassal Rise\"\t\t\t\t  \t\t000  \t\tManumission Campaigns\t\t\t  \t\t000  \t\tThe Hope of Liberty\t\t\t\t  \t\t000  Taking Liberties\t\t\t\t\t  \t000  \t\tOther Bards, Other Markets\t\t\t  \t\t000  Three\tAuthorship and Gift Exchange\t\t\t\t  \t000  \t\t\"Tablets of vanity; archives of pride and flattery\":   Albums\t000  \t\t\"I write to you out of mere humanity\": Letters\t  \t000  \t\t\"Damn you send me a paper\": Exchange Networks  \t\t000  \t\t\"Hammydiddle in plenty but no pay\": The Southern   Literary Messenger\t\t\t\t  \t\t000  \t\tThe Freeing of the Gift\t\t\t\t  \t000  Four\tToward a History of Literary Debt\t\t\t  \t\t000  \t\tAccounting for Subscriber Dereliction\t\t  \t000  \t\tRural Economics and Traditional Debt Ways\t  \t000  \t\tThe World of the Literary Dun\t\t\t  \t000  \t\tThe Discrediting of the American Reader\t\t  \t000  \t\tThe New Yorker and the Return of Literary Credit  \t\t000  Five\tLiterary Competitions and the Culture of Emulation\t  \t\t000  \t\tThe Culture of Emulation\t\t\t  \t\t000  \t\tThe Park Street Competition\t\t\t  \t\t000  \t\tThe Example of Charles Sprague\t\t\t  \t000  \t\tPrize Inflation and Prize Criticism\t\t  \t\t000  \t\tEdgar Allan Poe and the World of Competitions\t  \t000  \t\tThe Routinization of the Prize\t\t\t  \t000  Epilogue: From the Business of Letters to the Profession of Authorship  \t000  Notes\t000  Index\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405570580823,"sku":"9780804757058","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804757058.jpg?v=1730492873","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-business-of-letters-9780804757058","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}