Essays and Reviews

Essays and Reviews
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Library of America
Total Pages: 1572
Release: 1984
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780940450196

Gathers Poe's essays on the theory of poetry, the art of fiction, the role of the critic, leading nineteenth-century writers, and the New York literary world.

American Authors and the Literary Marketplace since 1900

American Authors and the Literary Marketplace since 1900
Author: James L. W. West, III
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2011-06-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0812204530

This book examines literary authorship in the twentieth century and covers such topics as publishing, book distribution, the trade editor, the literary agent, the magazine market, subsidiary rights, and the blockbuster mentality.