In Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace, David Dowling
examines an often-overlooked aspect of the history of publishing --
relationships, of both a business and a personal nature. The book
focuses on several intriguing duos of the nineteenth century and
explores the economics of literary partnerships between
author/publisher, student/mentor, husband/wife, and
parent/child.
These literary companions range from Emerson's promotion of
Thoreau -- a relationship fraught with pitfalls and misjudgments --
to "Davis, Inc.," the seamless joining of the literary and legal
minds of Rebecca Harding Davis and her husband, L. Clarke
Davis.
Dowling also considers and analyzes the teams of Washington
Irving and his publisher, John Murray; Herman Melville and his
editor, Evert Duyckinck; E. D. E. N. Southworth and Robert Bonner,
the publisher who serialized her sentimental novels; Fanny Fern
both with her brother/publisher, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and with
Robert Bonner, the latter a more successful pairing; and the famous
fraternal relationship between Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude
Stein.
Throughout, Dowling demonstrates the intrinsic irony of authors
projecting their labors of the mind as autonomous even as they
relied heavily on their "literary partners" to aid them in
navigating the business side of writing.
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