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Judging New Wealth - Popular Publishing and Responses to Commerce in England, 1750-1800 (Hardcover)
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Judging New Wealth - Popular Publishing and Responses to Commerce in England, 1750-1800 (Hardcover)
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In this broad-ranging study, James Raven explores popular
literature and the book trade in the second half of the eighteenth
century. Based on intensive research into the production and sale
of literature ranging from novels and magazines to courtesy books
and fashionable tracts, the book examines the representation of the
newly wealthy. Dr Raven challenges the recent and controversial
notion that prejudice against the businessman was a late
nineteenth-century phenomenon. He shows how, during a period of
often bewildering change and instability, a competitive literature
industry led reaction against excessive consumer spending,
contributed to the definition of legitimate economic behaviour, and
carried unprecedented attacks upon the social presumption of
tradesman. This is a scholarly and stimulating study which makes
important contributions to debates on the supposed decline of the
British industrial spirit and on the growing self-confidence of the
middle class. Judging New Wealth adds very greatly to our
understanding of the cultural and business history of late
eighteenth-century England.
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