Literature and the marketplace : romantic writers and their audiences in Great Britain and the United States
Addresses one of the great ironies of nineteenth-century British and American literature: the fact that authors of that era, in voicing their alienation from middle-class readers, paradoxically gave expression to feelings of alienation felt by those same readers.
Print Book, English, ©1996
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, ©1996
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 230 pages ; 23 cm
9780803239180, 0803239181
34357234
Preface: Current Interest in Audience
Introduction: The Romantic Response to Mass Society
1. The Anglo-American Literary Profession in the Nineteenth Century
2. Wordsworth and the Difficulty of "Speaking to Men"
3. Religious Vocation and Blake's Obscurity
4. Private Poet, Public Man: Shelley and Romantic Self-Division
5. Romantic Conceptions of the Writer in Hawthorne and Poe
6. Emerson as a Cultural Spokesman
7. Melville as a Professional Writer
8. Romantic Genius and Literary Production in the Nineteenth Century
Conclusion: Romantic Letters to the World