The Economy of Character - Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning

Exploring the perception of literary characters as "people" with whom readers might spend time and empathize, scholar Deidre Shauna Lynch shows how readers came to use transactions with book characters to help readers understand and distinguish themselves from others in the beginnings of consumer society. 8 photos.

Résumé

At the start of the 18th century, literary "characters" referred as much to letters and typefaces as it did to persons in books. However, this text shows how, by the 19th century, readers used transactions with characters to accommodate themselves to newly-commmercialized social relations.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Deidre Lynch, Deidre Shauna Lynch, Deidre Shauna (University of Toronto) Lynch, Lynch Deidre Shauna
• Edition: University Presses
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 13.05.1998
• EAN: 9780226498201
• ISBN: 978-0-226-49820-1
• Pages: 332
• Dimensions: 17 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Poids: 567 g
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; Cultural Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social, group or collective psychology, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form