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Reading, Publishing and the Formation of Literary Taste in England, 1880-1914 (Paperback)
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Reading, Publishing and the Formation of Literary Taste in England, 1880-1914 (Paperback)
Series: The Nineteenth Century Series
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Between 1880 and 1914, England saw the emergence of an
unprecedented range of new literary forms from Modernism to the
popular thriller. Not coincidentally, this period also marked the
first overt references to an art/market divide through which books
took on new significance as markers of taste and class. Though this
division has received considerable attention relative to the
narrative structures of the period's texts, little attention has
been paid to the institutions and ideologies that largely
determined a text's accessibility and circulated format and thus
its mode of address to specific readerships. Hammond addresses this
gap in scholarship, asking the following key questions: How did
publishing and distribution practices influence reader choice? Who
decided whether or not a book was a 'classic'? In a patriarchal,
class-bound literary field, how were the symbolic positions of
'author' and 'reader' affected by the increasing numbers of women
who not only bought and borrowed, but also wrote novels? Using
hitherto unexamined archive material and focussing in detail on the
working practices of publishers and distributors such as Oxford
University Press and W.H. Smith and Sons, Hammond combines the
methodologies of sociology, literary studies and book history to
make an original and important contribution to our understanding of
the cultural dynamics and rhetorics of the fin-de-siecle literary
field in England.
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