The reading nation in the Romantic period

The reading nation in the Romantic period

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York Cambridge University Press 2004

xxix, 765 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

028.9 S136 2004

(OCoLC)52886917

Contents:1. Reading and its consequences -- 2. Economic characteristics of the printed book industry -- 3. Intellectual property -- 4. Anthologies, abridgment, and the development of commercial vested interests in prolonging the obsolete -- 5. The high monopoly period in England -- 6. The explosion of reading -- 7. The old canon -- 8. Shakespeare -- 9. Literary production in the romantic period -- 10. Manufacturing -- 11. Selling, prices, and access -- 12. Romance -- 13. Reading constituencies -- 14. Horizons of expectations -- 15. 'Those vile French piracies' -- 16. 'Preparatory schools for the brothel and the gallows' -- 17. At the boundaries of the reading nation -- 18. Frankenstein -- 19. North America -- 20. Reading, reception, and dissemination -- 21. The romantic poets in the Victorian age -- 22. The political economy of reading.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 724-742) and index
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