Table of Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Chapter 1 Marketing by Mug 1
Photography, Capital, and Class 3
Fields of Restricted Production and the Legitimizing of Artists 18
Chapter 2 The "Endless Riband of Foolscap" and Publishing by Manuscript 28
Earning Symbolic Capital with the Labor of Writing 32
Noncommercial Marketing of Literary Goods 42
The Markets for Symbolic Goods and Art as Intimate Connection 49
Symbolic Capital and the Intimate Hand 56
Chapter 3 "Firmament" or "Fin": Copyright, Authority, and Ownership 64
Copyright Law in Nineteenth-Century America 66
Copyright and Capital 69
Ownership, Labor, and Private Publication 77
Chapter 4 "The brain is just the weight of God": Hand, Mind, and Manuscript 84
The "Body-Minded Brain" and the Materiality of Writing 91
Beyond the Art of Bookcraft 100
The Persona as a Commodity in a Material Economy 110
Chapter 5 Not "Convenient to Carry in the Hand": Commercializing Melville and Dickinson in the Twentieth Century 120
Notoriety and the Personal Side of Profit 121
The Posthumous Careers of Emily Dickinson and Herman Melville: Scholarship, Editions, Monuments, and Consumers 126
The Capital of Popular Culture 137
Notes 147
Works Cited 155
Index 165