The economy of character : novels, market culture, and the business of inner meaning
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Cleveland Public Library - Main Library - Literature DepartmentPR858.C47 L94 1998On Shelf

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xiii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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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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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Lynch, D. (1998). The economy of character: novels, market culture, and the business of inner meaning . University of Chicago Press.

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Lynch, Deidre. 1998. The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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Lynch, Deidre. The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

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Lynch, D. (1998). The economy of character: novels, market culture, and the business of inner meaning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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Lynch, Deidre. The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning University of Chicago Press, 1998.

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