Figures of Speech

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394496965
• ISBN13: 9780394496962
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.