Download or read book The Business of Literary Circles in Nineteenth-Century America written by D. Dowling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study ranges from Irving's Knickerbockers, Emerson's Transcendentalists, and Garrison's abolitionists to the popular serial fiction writers for Robert Bonner's New York Ledger to unearth surprising convergences between such seemingly disparate circles.