The Moral Economies of American Authorship : Reputation, Scandal, and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace.

Cover -- The Moral Economies of American Authorship Reputation, Scandal, and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace -- Copyright -- Dedication -- { Contents } -- { Acknowledgments } -- Introduction: Moral Markets -- {1} Fenimore Cooper, Property, and the Trials of National Authorship -- Property's Publics -- Literary Offenses -- or, Mr. Cooper and Mr. Effingham -- Fiction's Properties -- (Trans)national Disappointments -- Recuperation -- {2} Paratexts and the Making of Moral Authority -- Prefacing Reputation -- Abolition's Scandals: The Case of Mary Prince -- Authorship, Evidence, and Art -- The Status of Secrets -- {3} Frederick Douglass's Marketing of Moral Repair -- Moral Properties -- Marketing Reputation -- The Tribulation of an Editor -- Personal Property -- {4} The Currency of Reputation -- Interdependencies -- Moral Printscapes -- Stowe's Emergence -- E.D.E.N. Southworth's Balancing Act -- {5} Stowe, Byron, and the Art of Scandal -- Intimacy, Evidence, and Narrative -- The Byron Whirlwind -- Literary Status -- Marketing Scandal -- Epilogue: Reputation Redux -- { Notes } -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Epilogue -- { 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.

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