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""This book can take its place on the shelf beside Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land and Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden.""--Choice ""[Gilmore] demonstrates the profound, sustained, engagement with society embodied in the works of Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and Melville. In e…
However much Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Melville differ as writers, says Gilmore, they greatly resemble one another in recognizing a market culture as their common adversary. In such an environment, everything--including literature--is for sale, and customer satisfaction i…