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Tolerable entertainment; Herman Melville and professionalism in antebellum New York.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Tolerable entertainment; Herman Melville and professionalism in antebellum New York.

Evelev, John.

U. of Massachusetts Press

2006

232 pages

$34.95

Hardcover

PS2386

Evelev (English, U. of Missouri-Columbia) conducts a new reading of Melville, based upon the contexts of the decline of elite patronage and the rise of the new middlebrow literary market economy in antebellum New York. Evelev works through works from 1846's Tyree to 1852's Pierre to show how Melville responded to the sometimes violent changes in how art and ...

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