Writing for the Street, Writing in the Garret: Melville, Dickinson, and Private Publication

by Michael Kearns

Book Overview

Although Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson differed dramatically in terms of their lives and writing careers, they shared not only a distaste for writing "for the street" (mass readership) but a preference for the intimate writer-reader relationship created by private publication, especially in the form of manuscripts. In Writing for the Street, Writing in the Garret: Melville, Dickinson, and Private Publication, Michael Kearns shows that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814256546
• ISBN13: 9780814256541
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"