Literature, commerce, and the spectacle of modernity, 1750-1800 / (Record no. 11944)
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| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781107016675 (hardback) |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | KM540A1.K432012 |
| Item number | 08145157 |
| MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Keen, Paul, |
| TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Literature, commerce, and the spectacle of modernity, 1750-1800 / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Paul Keen. |
| Copyright Date | |
| Place of publication | New York |
| Name of publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year of publication or production | 2012 |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xi, 250 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. ; |
| SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Cambridge studies in Romanticism |
| FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Machine generated contents note: 1. The ocean of ink: a long introduction; 2. Balloonomania: the pursuit of knowledge and the culture of the spectacle; 3. Bibliomania: the rage for books and the spectacle of culture; 4. Foolish knowledge: the little world of microcosmopolitan literature; 5. Uncommon animals: literary professionalism in the age of authors; 6. The learned pig: enlightening the reading public; 7. Afterword: a swinish multitude: the tyranny of fashion in the 1790s; 8. Works cited. |
| SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "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"-- |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | English literature |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Literature and society |
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| Topical Term | Commerce in literature. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Materialism in literature. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Modernism (Literature) |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | National characteristics, British, in literature. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
| ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/16675/cover/9781107016675.jpg |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
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