{"product_id":"9780814250310","title":"RECIPROCAL INFLUENCES: LITERARY PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, AND C","description":"The essays gathered in this volume represent renewed interest in the history of the American book. Inspired by the work of William Charvat, the contributors trace the complex web of \"reciprocal influences\" among authors, readers, and the publishing trade in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America.\u003cp\u003eContributors to the volume are Martha Banta, Lawrence Buell, Steven Fink, Frances Smith Foster, Michael T. Gilmore, Jay Grossman, Julian Markels, Meredith L. McGill, Grantland S. Rice, Susan S. Williams, and Michael Winship. Their essays examine the poetry of Whitman and Melville; the fiction of Hawthorne, Melville, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Twain, and James Weldon Johnson; the essays of Margaret Fuller and William Charvat; and the early Afro-Protestant press and \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. The essays also consider the importance of the transatlantic book trade, the construction of literary careers, and the material conditions of authorship and reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese essays, all previously unpublished, will be of interest to students and scholars of book history as well as of American literature and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteven Fink\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eSusan S. Williams\u003c\/b\u003e are associate professors in the Department of English at The Ohio State University. Fink is the author of \u003ci\u003eProphet in the Marketplace: Thoreau's Development as a Professional Writer.\u003c\/i\u003e Williams is the author of \u003ci\u003eConfounding Images: Photography and Portraiture in Antebellum American Fiction.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohio State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021617873136,"sku":"9780814250310","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814250310_p0.jpg?v=1763742643","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814250310","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}