Paul Keen

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the ways that authors responded to fundamental questions about literature during an age of accelerating change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781107016675
• ISBN-10: 1107016673
• Artikelnr.: 34386176

Autorenporträt

Paul Keen is Professor of English at Carleton University.

Inhaltsangabe

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.