Figuring authorship in antebellum America

Abstract

Introduction: labor and letters in Antebellum America 1. Industry and authorship: Hawt horne's mob, Melville's maids, and the Lowell Offering 3. Healthful employment: white-collar work, writing, and middle-class fitness 4. Purloined letters, mechanical butterflies and watches in girdles: literary property in mid nineteenth-century America Afterword Notes Index.