Literature, commerce, and the spectacle of modernity 1750-1800
"Paul Keen explores how a consumer revolution which reached its peak in the second half of the eighteenth century shaped debates about the role of literature in a polite modern nation, and tells the story of the resourcefulness with which many writers responded to these pressures. From dream re...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2014
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| Ausgabe: | First paperback edition |
| Schriftenreihe: | Cambridge studies in romanticism
92 |
| Schlagworte: |
Commerce in literature
> English literature
> 18th century
> LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
> bisacsh
> Literature and society
> England
> Materialism in literature
> Modernism (Literature)
> National characteristics, British, in literature
> Englisch
> Literatur
> Geschichte 1750-1800
> Großbritannien
> Literarisches Leben
> Kommerzialisierung
> Geschichte
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Paul Keen explores how a consumer revolution which reached its peak in the second half of the eighteenth century shaped debates about the role of literature in a polite modern nation, and tells the story of the resourcefulness with which many writers responded to these pressures. From dream reveries which mocked their own entrepreneurial commitments, such as Oliver Goldsmith's account of selling his work at a 'Fashion Fair' on the frozen Thames, to the Microcosm's mock plan to establish 'a licensed warehouse for wit,' writers insistently tied their literary achievements to a sophisticated understanding of the uncertain complexities of a modern transnational society. This book combines a new understanding of late eighteenth-century literature with the materialist and sociological imperatives of book history and theoretically inflected approaches to cultural history" |
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| Beschreibung: | Originally published: 2012 Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 223-241 Enthält Index |
| Beschreibung: | XI, 250 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781107479661 978-1-107-47966-1 |