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EBOOK Grand Chorus of Complaint:Authors and the Business Ethics of American Publishing

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199924257
EAN: 1A76E264EB
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Stron: 256
Data wydania: 2011
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When Lord Byron toasted Napoleon for executing a bookseller, and when American        satirist Fitz-Greene Halleck picketed his New York publisher for trying to starve        him, both writers were taking part in a time-honored tradition-styling publishers as        unregenerate capitalists. However apocryphal, both stories speak to the longstanding        feud between writers and publishers over how the book business ought to be        conducted. Such grumblings were so constant throughout the nineteenth century that        Horace Greeley wearily referred to them collectively as "e;the grand chorus of        complaint."e;Ranging from the Revolution to the Civil War, The Grand Chorus of        Complaint explores moral propriety in American literary culture, arguing that        debates over the business of authorship and publishing in the United States were        simultaneously debates over the ethics and character of capitalism. Michael Everton        shows that the moral discourse authors and publishers used in these debates was not        intended as a distraction from debates over economics, intellectual property, or        gender in American literary culture. Instead, morality was itself at issue. With        case studies of the fraught publication experiences of authors including Thomas        Paine, Hannah Adams, Herman Melville, Fanny Fern, and Gail Hamilton, Everton argues        that in their business correspondence and fiction, in their diaries and essays,        authors and publishers talked so much about ethics not to obfuscate their        convictions but to clarify them in a commercial world preoccupied by the meanings        and efficacy of moral beliefs. The Grand Chorus of Complaint illustrates that ethics        should matter as much to book historians as much as it has come to matter-again-to        literary critics and theorists.Through wide-ranging primary-source research backed        by a nuanced layering of historical detail, The Grand Chorus of Complaint dissects        the role of morality in the print culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century        America, providing a valuable new perspective on formative forces in the publishing        trade.

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