| Advertising, Subjectivity and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Dickens, Balzac and the Language of the Walls Contributor(s): Thornton, S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0230008321 ISBN-13: 9780230008328 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2009 Annotation: "The language of the walls" is a central concept in this inquiry into advertising's influence on production and consumption of fiction from 1830-70. New systems of advertising (on hoardings, posters, in periodicals and novels) were changing reading practices and producing a new subject hailed by the text and image of the urban landscape. This study considers the first recognition of a "virtual" world, theorizes and historicizes a crucial moment in print culture and proposes new readings of key texts. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - History | Social History - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 809.303 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.6" W x 8.5" (0.85 lbs) 214 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From 1830 to 1870 advertising brought in its wake a new understanding of how the subject read and how language operated. Sara Thornton presents a crucial moment in print culture, the early recognition of what we now call a 'virtual' world, and proposes new readings of key texts by Dickens and Balzac. |