Prophet in the marketplace : Thoreau's development as a professional writer
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Prophet in the marketplace : Thoreau's development as a professional writer
Princeton University Press, c1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-315) and index
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Thoreau wanted to be both a prophet and a professional, and although his ideals often clashed with the demands of the reading public, he was compelled to respond to a complex and evolving literary marketplace. By focusing on the economic relationship between writer and reader in antebellum America, Steven Fink not only reveals the early professional ambitions of the "hermit of Walden Pond" as conveyed in his writings, but also illuminates the nature of nineteenth-century publishing. The author shows Thoreau to have been, from his first publications, sensitive to questions of audience and literary markets, and traces his evolving professionalism through the various trials and errors of his career, demonstrating how these professional considerations profoundly shaped his writings. This book concentrates on Thoreau's development in the pre-Walden years, when he wrote moral essays, literary criticism, reform essays, nature sketches, and travel narratives for a full range of literary media--from popular magazines to publications for the intellectual elite.
Relying on historical and biographical research, Fink offers new information on the public response to Thoreau's works and on Thoreau's own sense of his life as a writer, and provides important readings of individual texts.
目次
AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction3Pt. INew ViewsCh. 1"That Public Ground between God and Conscience": Thoreau's Apprenticeship and the Early Dial11Ch. 2"The Value of a Fact": The Dial under Emerson and the "Natural History of Massachusetts"38Pt. IIThe Wider WorldCh. 3"The Poet Active": Writing beyond the Dial61Ch. 4"Now Goes Our Brave Youth": Thoreau in New York86Pt. IIIA Strategic RetreatCh. 5"Favored by the Gods": Writing from Walden Pond125Ch. 6"Contact! Contact!": The Publication of "Ktaadn"150Pt. IVPractical and Popular InfluenceCh. 7"Only as It Serves as an Advertisement of Me": Lecturing on Walden, Looking for a Publisher191Ch. 8"Flowing to Higher Levels": A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers216Ch. 9"Some Interior Shoot": Thoreau's Career after 1850254Notes287Index317
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