Literature, Commerce, and the Spectacle of Modernity, 1750–1800

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British
Cover of the book Literature, Commerce, and the Spectacle of Modernity, 1750–1800 by Paul Keen, Cambridge University Press
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Author: Paul Keen ISBN: 9781139234566
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: February 2, 2012
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Paul Keen
ISBN: 9781139234566
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: February 2, 2012
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

Paul Keen explores how a consumer revolution which reached its peak in the second half of the eighteenth century shaped debates about the role of literature in a polite modern nation, and tells the story of the resourcefulness with which many writers responded to these pressures. From dream reveries which mocked their own entrepreneurial commitments, such as Oliver Goldsmith's account of selling his work at a 'Fashion Fair' on the frozen Thames, to the Microcosm's mock plan to establish 'a licensed warehouse for wit', writers insistently tied their literary achievements to a sophisticated understanding of the uncertain complexities of a modern transactional society. This book combines a new understanding of late eighteenth-century literature with the materialist and sociological imperatives of book history and theoretically inflected approaches to cultural history.

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Paul Keen explores how a consumer revolution which reached its peak in the second half of the eighteenth century shaped debates about the role of literature in a polite modern nation, and tells the story of the resourcefulness with which many writers responded to these pressures. From dream reveries which mocked their own entrepreneurial commitments, such as Oliver Goldsmith's account of selling his work at a 'Fashion Fair' on the frozen Thames, to the Microcosm's mock plan to establish 'a licensed warehouse for wit', writers insistently tied their literary achievements to a sophisticated understanding of the uncertain complexities of a modern transactional society. This book combines a new understanding of late eighteenth-century literature with the materialist and sociological imperatives of book history and theoretically inflected approaches to cultural history.

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