Evert A. Duyckinck and the American literary renaissance : the New York City literary marketplace and Poe, Hawthorne, Fuller, and Melville /

This dissertation analyzes the sociocultural milieux of four major nineteenth-century authors: Poe, Hawthorne, Fuller, and Melville. Seeking to establish their careers when the new nation, struggling to define itself in letters and thought, was developing economically and politically, these writers...

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