Download or read book Figuring Authorship in Antebellum America written by Michael Newbury and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through studies of such writers as Hawthorne, Melville, and Stowe, this book shows how the increased demand for salable entertainment fostered a new consciousness of authorship as a commercial and professional mode of work in the first half of the nineteenth century in America.