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The Economy of Character : Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning
The Economy of Character Novels Market Culture and the Business of Inner Meaning
Author: Deidre Shauna Lynch
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 the equals of their readers, friends with whom readers might spend time and empathize. — Although the story of this shift is usually told in terms of th...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226498201
ISBN-10: 0226498204
Publication Date: 5/13/1998
Pages: 332
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
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