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Article: Capital sentiment: Fanny Fern's transformation of the gentleman publisher's code.
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- ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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Fanny Fern's meteoric rise to fame occurred during a crucial stage in the development of capitalism in America. The changing market conditions that met with seismic ideological shifts regarding work and gender are at the heart of Fern's writing. Fern capitalized on the sudden rise in demand, and thus profit potential, for printed material that followed production and distribution advancements, making literature among the most lucrative industries of the 1850s. Publishers scrambled to meet this unprecedented spike in demand, in part, by pursuing popular authors more aggressively than ever, often abandoning old notions of collaborative, collusive business ethics for new ...
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