“A Literary Fellowship”: Relationships and Rivalries in 19th-Century American Literature
By Susan Jaffe Tane and Gabriel Mckee
More details at University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9781605830728
Publication Date: 2017
Publisher: The Grolier Club
133 pages | color plates | 9 x 6
As a culture of literary celebrity developed in the 19th century, many of the nation’s best known authors influenced, befriended, and offended one another. Business relationships with their publishers often blossomed into friendships or imploded into bitter rivalries. Drawing from the extensive collection of Susan Jaffe Tane, this exhibition catalog explores this web of relationships through letters, manuscripts, published books, and ephemera from authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sarah Helen Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Walt Whitman, and many more.