American romanticism and the marketplace
""This book can take its place on the shelf beside Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land and Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden.""--Choice ""[Gilmore] demonstrates the profound, sustained, engagement with society embodied in the works of Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and Melville. In effect, he relocates the American Renaissance where it properly belongs, at the centre of a broad social, economic, and ideological movement from the Jacksonian era to the Civil War. Basically, Gilmore's argument concerns the writers' participation in what Thoreau called 'the curse of tra
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1 online resource (ix, 177 pages)
9780226293950, 9786612537165, 9780226293943, 9781282537163, 0226293955, 6612537167, 0226293947, 1282537164
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Emerson and the Persistence of the Commodity; 2 Walden and the Curse of Trade
3 Hawthorne, Melville, and the Democratic Public; 4 To Speak in the Marketplace: The Scarlet Letter; 5 The Artist and the Marketplace in: The House of the Seven Gables; 6 Selling One's Head: Moby-Dick; 7 Bartleby, the Scrivener and the Transformation of the Economy; Afterword; Notes; Index
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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