Figures of Speech: American Writers and the Literary Marketplace, from Benjamin Franklin to Emily Dickinson

By R. Jackson Wilson and Professor R. Jackson Wilson

Book Overview

A study of five Americans--Franklin, Irving, Garrison, Emerson, and Dickinson--who wrote about being writers and their confrontation with the emerging commercial reality of the literary marketplace.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801840031
• ISBN13: 9780801840036
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"