| Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices Contributor(s): Jordan, John O. (Editor), Patten, Robert L. (Editor), Beer, Gillian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521452473 ISBN-13: 9780521452472 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $130.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1995 Annotation: This innovative collection of essays addresses important issues in the history of the book. The multidisciplinary essays consider different aspects of the production, circulation, and consumption of printed texts, analyzing such topics as market trends, modes of publication, and the use of pseudonyms by women writers. Contributors draw on speech act, reader response and gender theory in addition to historical, narratological, materialist, and bibliographical perspectives to study authors such as Dickens, the Bronte s and George Eliot. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: NA |
| LCCN: 94027284 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 6.26" W x 9.31" (1.37 lbs) 356 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This innovative collection of essays addresses important issues in the history of the book. The multidisciplinary essays consider different aspects of the production, circulation, and consumption of printed texts, analyzing such topics as market trends, modes of publication, and the use of pseudonyms by women writers. Contributors draw on speech act, reader response and gender theory in addition to historical, narratological, materialist, and bibliographical perspectives to study authors such as Dickens, the Bront s and George Eliot. |