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The Economy of Character - Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning (Paperback, 2nd ed.) Loot Price: R1,027
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The Economy of Character - Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning (Paperback, 2nd ed.): Deidre Shauna Lynch

The Economy of Character - Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning (Paperback, 2nd ed.)

Deidre Shauna Lynch

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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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Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: May 1998
First published: May 1998
Authors: Deidre Shauna Lynch
Dimensions: 155 x 228 x 2mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 332
Edition: 2nd ed.
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-49820-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory
Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN: 0-226-49820-4
Barcode: 9780226498201

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