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University of Georgia Press [Published Date: 1985]. Hardcover, 239 pp. First printing. [Very good / NO dust jacket. Yellow illustrated cloth covered boards have light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. Very good but for MISSING dust jacket. Contents include: Preface; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: The Divine Literatus; Metropolitan Newspapers and the Rise of the Reporter; "Magazining" for the Masses; International Copyright and the Emergence of Progressive Publishing; The Brain Worker: Jack London; Would-Be Singer: Upton Sinclair; The Eternal Masculine: David Graham Phillips; Purity and Shame: Lincoln Steffens; EPILOGUE. The Legacy of Literary Professionalism; Notes; Index. [From Publisher's summary] In the three decades after 1885, a virtual explosion in the nation’s print media?newspaper tabloids, inexpensive magazines, and best-selling books?vaulted the American writer to unprecedented heights of cultural and political influence. The Labor of Words traces the impact of this mass literary marketplace on Progressive era writers. Using the works and careers of Jack London, Upton Sinclair, David Graham Phillips, and Lincoln Steffens as case studies, Christopher P. Wilson measures the advantages and costs of the new professional literary role and captures the drama of this transformative epoch in American journalism and letters.