What is an Author?: Poe, Hawthorne, Dickinson

What does it mean to be identified as an “author”? How did the practices of writing and reading change in 19th-century America? This course addresses such questions by reconsidering the literary careers of Hawthorn, Poe, and Emily Dickinson. Our work will investigate literary culture and book history, focusing on 19th-century. authors, readers, magazines, publishing, criticism, and popular media. Enrollment limited to 20.