Prophet in the Marketplace: Thoreau's Development as a Professional Writer

By Steven Fink

Book Overview

Although Henry David Thoreau liked to be known as "the hermit of Walden Pond," he also wanted to be a successful writer. Steven Fink traces Thoreau's evolving sense of professionalism, demonstrating how profoundly it shaped his writings. By focusing on Thoreau's pre-Walden years and looking carefully at the nature of publishing in nineteenth-century America, Fink provides us with invaluable access to Thoreau's relationship with the marketplace and with his audience. Book jacket.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691067643
• ISBN13: 9780691067643
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"