Industry & the Creative Mind: The Eccentric Writer in American Literature and Entertainment, 1790-1860 - Couverture rigide

Tomc, Sandra

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ISBN 10 : 0472118366 ISBN 13 : 9780472118366

Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 2012

Synopsis

Industry and the Creative Mind takes a radically new look at the figure of the eccentric, alienated writer in American literature and entertainment from 1790 to 1860. Traditional scholarship takes for granted that the eccentric writer, modeled by such Romantic beings as Lord Byron and brought to life for American audiences by the gloomy person of Edgar Allan Poe, was a figure of rebellion against the excesses of modern commercial culture and industrial life. By contrast, Industry and the Creative Mind argues that in the United States myths of writerly moodiness, alienation, and irresponsibility predated the development of a commercial arts and entertainment industry and instead of forming a site of rebellion from this industry formed a bedrock for its development. Looking at the careers of a number of early American writers---Joseph Dennie, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Edgar Allan Poe, Fanny Fern, as well as a host of now forgotten souls who peopled the twilight worlds of hack fiction and industrial literature---this book traces the way in which early nineteenth-century American arts and entertainment systems incorporated writerly eccentricity in their "logical" economic workings, placing the mad, rebellious writer at the center of the industry's productivity and success.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sandra Tomc is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Michigan Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0472118366
• ISBN 13: 9780472118366
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 318
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• Personne responsable: non disponible