Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-171) and index.

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 is achieved at the cost of personal integrity. Limiting discussion to a few works such as Nature, Walden, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, Moby Dick, and "Bartleby," Gilmore observes that the seeds of compromise are present from the beginning in Nature; Walden is shaped largely by consciousness of the market economy it rejects; and Melville's disillusionment with fiction and Hawthorne's later hostility proceed from frustration in trying to express their democratic values through their essentially elitist art. ISBN 0-226-29395-5: $19.95.

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