Industry and the Creative Mind: The Eccentric Writer in American Literature and Entertainment, 1790-1860

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299 Index Abrams, M. H., 69 Accardo, Peter X., 31 Adams, John Quincy, 63, 66, 87 Adams, Thomas Boylston, 63, 87, 275n89 Addison, Joseph, 69, 74, 96, 269n13 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 19, 158 alienation of authors, 26, 47, 60, 95; cultures of, 131–42; and Poe, 104–5, 120–21, 129, 146, 152. See also genius Allen, Michael, 281n51 Allen, Paul, 53–57, 63 Allibone, S. Austin, 263n19 Altick, Richard D., 261–62n3 amateur literary culture, 107, 157, 184–86 American canon, 16–18 The American Lounger. See Dennie, Joseph, works by American Monthly Magazine, 51, 124, 125, 154 American Renaissance, 5 Ames, Fisher, 38, 78, 265n35 Amory, Hugh, 261–62n3, 262n4 Appleton’s Magazine, 253 Arthur, T. S., 215 Arthur’s Home Magazine, 215, 234 Atkinson, Samuel C., 111 Atlantic Monthly, 171, 189, 228, 242, 246 Auser, Cortland P., 286n7 authorship: amateur, 184–86; as business , 79–80; and downward mobility , 119; and economic value, 184–91; and entrepreneurialism, 111–13; wages of, 113–14. See also romantic authorship; women writers Baker, Thomas, 125, 172, 280n40, 289n67 Ballou’s Pictorial-Drawing Room, 129 Baltimore Saturday Visiter, 112 Barlow, Joel, 83 Barnum, P. T., 13, 178–79, 180–81 Baudelaire, Charles, 249 Bayless, Joy, 280n42 Beecher, Catharine, 216 Beecher, Henry Ward, 179 Beers, Henry A., 172, 280n40, 286n7, 289–90n76 Benjamin, Park, 11, 18, 21, 138, 139, 140, 142, 149, 156, 246; and Brother Jonathan, 135–37, 148; on celebrity, 134; and James Fenimore Cooper, 133, 140; early life and career, 132–37; and New World, 135–36 Bennett, Andrew, 4, 16, 40 Bennett, James Gordon, 52, 133, 137, 138, 149, 250 Berlant, Lauren, 197, 292n5, 292n7 Beulah. See Evans, Augusta Jane Biddle, Nicholas, 271n36 Binney, Horace, 271n36 Bissell, Champion, 257n3 Blackwood’s Magazine, 42, 159 Blake, William, 44 Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of, 125, 163, 173 The Blithedale Romance. See Hawthorne, Nathaniel, works by Blumin, Stuart M., 287n20, 294n38 Bohemia, New York, 248–51, 297n2 Bohemian, 2, 277n7 Bonaparte, Marie, 117 Bonner, Robert, 240 book prices, 30 Bottorff, William K., 275n101 Bourdieu, Pierre, 3, 4, 60, 106, 155, 180, 269n7, 277n7 Boyd, Anne E., 292n5 Brainard, John, 1–2, 117, 118–19 Briggs, Charles, 130, 284n112 The Broadway Journal, 151 Brodhead, Richard, 11, 215, 258n8, 260n23, 294n39 Brooks, Van Wyck, 286n9, 288n39 Brother Jonathan, 135–36, 148, 152 Brown, Charles Brockden, 2, 17, 53–57, 63, 83, 85, 271n36 Brown, Gillian, 155, 200, 258n8, 292n5 Brown, Richard D., 265n35 Browne, Junius Henri, 251 Buckingham, Joseph T., 93–95, 133, 274n84 Buell, Lawrence, 155, 257n7, 265n35 Buinicki, Martin T., 290n97 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 107, 124, 125, 136, 163 Burke, Edmund, 32, 270n16 Burns, Rex, 287n29 Bushman, Richard L., 294n38 Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 1, 2, 15, 49, 61, 99, 100, 105, 107, 115, 116, 118, 122, 124, 157, 238, 243, 245, 246, 263n15, 267n67, 267n68, 270n15; and cheap press, 137–39, 165–66; dissemination in U.S., 31–32; in Edgar Allan Poe, 138, 139; on reprints, 32; and women writers, 193, 246–47 Byron, George Gordon, Lord, works by: Beppo, 31; English Bards, 32; The Giaour, 31–32; Hours of Idleness, 32, 64, 100; The Lament of Tasso, 51 Cahill, Edward, 48, 80, 272n55 capitalist publishing. See publishing, capitalist The Career of Puffer Hopkins, 141 Carey, Alice, 231–32 Carey, Matthew, 30 Carey & Lea, 30, 149, 152 Carlisle, David, 84 Carroll, Nöel, 12, 260n26 Casper, Scott E., 277n8 Cawelti, John G., 156, 164, 288n41, 294n35 celebrity, 13–14, 15, 20–23; in antebellum marketplace, 115–16; and Joseph Dennie, 89–98; and Fanny Fern, 210–11; as inescapable, 142–47, 284n112, and intimacy, 124–29; and Edgar Allan Poe, 125, 130, 144; as religious experience, 90, 274n8; and Nathaniel Parker Willis, 124–25, 128, 130, 150, 171–76, 246 Channing, Edward Tyrell, 40, 48, 105, 265n35 Charvat, William, 109, 155, 258n7, 261–62n3, 273n67 Chase, Richard, 257n5 Chatterton, Thomas, 38, 78, 149, 266n54; among British Romantics, 117–18; and Charles Brockden Brown, 56; in Samuel Taylor Coleridge , 46; as genius, 48–49; life of, 43–44; in Port Folio, 63, 269n10; in U.S. literature, 44–47 cheap press, 5, 13–14, 18, 21–23, { 300 } Index 105; and employment for authors, 108–10; mammoth sheets, 134–37; penny press, 113–14, 134. See also publishing industry, antebellum; publishing industry, early national Chew, Samuel Claggett, 267n67 Child, Lydia Maria, 11, 232–34, 236; Frugal Housewife, 216, 232...