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Record ID marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-012.mrc:84973163:2741
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LEADER: 02741cam a2200421 a 4500
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010 $a 2005018490
020 $a1558495169 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)60796179
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035 $a(DLC) 2005018490
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050 00 $aPS2386$b.E94 2006
082 00 $a813/.3$aB$222
100 1 $aEvelev, John,$d1965-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005047117
245 10 $aTolerable entertainment :$bHerman Melville and professionalism in antebellum New York /$cJohn Evelev.
260 $aAmherst :$bUniversity of Massachusetts Press,$c2006.
300 $axii, 232 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction : Melville, New York city, and professional ideology -- $gCh. 1.$tTypee and Melville's initiation into the world of middle-class labor -- $gCh. 2.$t"Every one to his trade" : Mardi, literary form, and professional ideology -- $gCh. 3.$tAhab at the Astor Place riots : Melville and Shakespeare -- $gCh. 4.$tIshmael on the lecture circuit : Middlebrow culture and professionalism -- $gCh. 5.$tThe ambiguities of professionalism : Pierre, authorship, and autonomy -- $tEpilogue : "Bartleby," professional agency, and the literary academy.
520 1 $a"In Tolerable Entertainment, Herman Melville's life and literary work serve as windows on the tumultuous world of antebellum New York City. Charting Melville's writings from Typee (1846) to Pierre (1852) as responses to his experience of living in the city, this book reveals the dramatic shifts in American life occurring at the time."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aMelville, Herman,$d1819-1891$xHomes and haunts$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
650 0 $aAuthors, American$xHomes and haunts$zNew York (State)$zNew York.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009114806
650 0 $aAuthorship$xSocial aspects$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
650 0 $aProfessions$zNew York (State)$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xIntellectual life$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95005014
650 0 $aNovelists, American$y19th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108452
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108454
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0515/2005018490.html.
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS2386$i.E94 2006
852 00 $bbar$hPS2386$i.E94 2006