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title	:	Correspondent Colorings : Melville in the Marketplace
author	:	Post-Lauria, Sheila.
publisher	:	University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin	:	1558490027
print isbn13	:	9781558490024
ebook isbn13	:	9780585084053
language	:	English
subject	Melville, Herman,--1819-1891--Technique, Authors and readers--United States--History--19th century, Melville, Herman,--1819-1891--Books and reading, Journalism--United States--History--19th century, Popular literature--Technique, Fiction--Technique, Liter
publication date	:	1996
lcc	:	PS2388.T4P67 1996eb
ddc	:	813/.3
subject	:	Melville, Herman,--1819-1891--Technique, Authors and readers--United States--History--19th century, Melville, Herman,--1819-1891--Books and reading, Journalism--United States--History--19th century, Popular literature--Technique, Fiction--Technique, Liter

Page iii Correspondent Colorings Melville in the Marketplace Sheila Post-Lauria University of Massachusetts Press Amherst

Page iv Copyright 1996 by TheUniversityofMassachusettsPress All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America ISBN 1-55849-002-7 (cloth); 003-5 (pbk.) LC 95-37247 Designed by Steve Dyer Set in Adobe Minion by Dix Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Post-Lauria, Sheila, 1955 Correspondent colorings: Melville in the marketplace / Sheila Post-Lauria. p. cm. Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.)University of Chicago. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 1-55849-002-7 (cloth : alk. paper).ISBN 1-55849-003-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Melville, Herman, 18191891Technique. 2. Authors and readersUnited StatesHistory19th century. 3. Melville, Herman, 18191891Books and reading. 4. JournalismUnited StatesHistory19th century. 5. Popular literatureTechnique. 6. FictionTechnique. 7. Literary form. I. Title. PS2388.T4P67 1996 813'.3dc2095-37247 CIP British Library Cataloging in Publication data are available. This book is published with the support and cooperation of the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Page v This book is gratefully dedicated to all those who helped me make it a reality.

Page vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Preface xi Part One Literary Culture 1. Cultural Contexts 3 2. Typee: (Re)Making the Best-Seller 27 3. Reader Expectations and Innovation in Omoo and Mardi 47 4. Writer and Community in Redburn and White-Jacket 80 Part Two Critical Debates 5. Originality: The Case of Moby-Dick 101 6. (Un)Popularity: Moby-Dick and Pierre 123 Part Three The Periodical Marketplace 7. Marketplace Conditions 151 8. Creative Reliance: Periodical Practices in the Magazine Fiction 165

Page viii Part Four New Audiences, New Forms 9. Writing the American Novel: The Confidence-Man 213 10. The Move to Poetry 228 Notes 231 Index 269

Page ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Several people have taken considerable time to read parts of this study. I am deeply grateful to Robert A. Ferguson who advised me on this project from its early stages as a dissertation at the University of Chicago (1989). I am also grateful to my Melville professors, Benjamin J. Lease, James E. Miller, John Singleton, Robert E. Streeter, and William Veeder, who helped me think about Melville and literary history in new ways. I would also like to thank particularly Charlene Avallone, Daniel A. Cohen, Wyn Kelley, Carolyn Karcher, Robert Madison, Laurie Robertson-Lorant, and Susan Belasco Smith for the time, advice, and enthusiasm they each offered in our several discussions of Melville's position within antebellum culture. The following scholars have thoughtfully commented upon various portions of this book, and I am indebted to each: Hans Bergmann, Lauren Berlant, Walter Bezanson, Ray Browne, John Bryant, Hennig Cohen, Cathy N. Davidson, William Dillingham, Wai-chee Dimock, John Ernest, Michael T. Gilmore, Neil Harris, Susan K. Harris, Tom Inge, Christopher Looby, Kathleen McCormack, Kenneth Price, David S. Reynolds, and Eric Sundquist. Other scholars too numerous to mention here whose own works have indirectly influenced this study are acknowledged in due course in the following pages.

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