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Literature, Commerce, and the Spectacle of Modernity, 1750-1800

Literature, Commerce, and the Spectacle of Modernity, 1750-1800

Keen, Paul

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Book 92

Literary CriticismGeneral Law

ISBN10: 1107016673
ISBN13: 9781107016675
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 2 2012
Pages: 268
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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