The economy of character : novels, market culture, and the business of inner meaning
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Cleveland Public Library - Main Library - Literature Department | PR858.C47 L94 1998 | On Shelf |
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Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History.
Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History.
Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Romanticism -- Great Britain.
Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History.
Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Romanticism -- Great Britain.
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xiii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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9780226498201
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-307) and index.
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At the start of the eighteenth century, talk of literary "characters" referred as much to letters and typefaces as it did to persons in books. Yet by the nineteenth century, characters had become companions to their readers, friends with whom readers might spend time and empathize. Although the story of this shift is usually told in terms of the "rise of the individual," Deidre Shauna Lynch proposes an ingenious alternative interpretation. Elaborating a "pragmatics of character," Lynch shows how readers used transactions with characters to accommodate themselves to newly commercialized social relations. Searching for the inner meanings of characters allowed readers both to plumb their own inwardness and to distinguish themselves from others. In a culture of mass consumption, argues Lynch, possessing a belief in the inexpressible interior life of a character rendered one's property truly private.
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Lynch, D. (1998). The economy of character: novels, market culture, and the business of inner meaning . University of Chicago Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lynch, Deidre. 1998. The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lynch, Deidre. The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Lynch, D. (1998). The economy of character: novels, market culture, and the business of inner meaning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Lynch, Deidre. The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning University of Chicago Press, 1998.
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