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The Economy of Character - Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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The Economy of Character - Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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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, characters in
books became identified with the reader, as friends with whom they
empathized. The story of this shift in meaning is usually told in
terms of the "rise of the individual", but this text proposes an
alternative solution. Elaborating a "pragmatics of character" it
shows how readers used transactions with characters to accommodate
themselves to newly-commmercialized social relations. Ranging from
Defoe and Smollett to Burney and Austen, this account should
interest those with a concern for the inner workings of consumer
culture and the history of emotions.
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