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Writing for the Street, Writing in the Garret: Melville, Dickinson, and Private Publication

Writing for the Street, Writing in the Garret: Melville, Dickinson, and Private Publication

Kearns, Michael

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0814256546
ISBN13: 9780814256541
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: Oct 9 2020
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Although Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson differed dramatically in terms of their lives and writing careers, they shared not only a distaste for writing for the street (mass readership) but a preference for the intimate writer-reader relationship created by private publication, especially in the form of manuscripts. In Writing for the Street, Writing in the Garret: Melville, Dickinson, and Private Publication, Michael Kearns shows that this distaste and preference were influenced by American copyright law, by a growing tendency in America to treat not only publications but their authors as commodities, and by the romantic stereotype of the artist (usually suffering in a garret) living only for her or his own work.

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