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02983aam a2200421 a 4500 001 D83992C0C4D411E18910E79C6AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20120703010241 008 111012s2012 enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2011042610 020 $a 1107016673 (hardback) 020 $a 9781107016675 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)757931395 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d SILO $d UKMGB $d ERASA $d YDXCP $d CDX $d BWX $d PUL $d STF $d COO $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a PR448.S64 $b K45 2012 082 00 $a 820.9/006 $b 23 084 $a LIT004120 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Keen, Paul, $d 1963- 245 1 $a Literature, commerce, and the spectacle of modernity, 1750-1800 / $c Paul Keen. 260 $a Cambridge ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2012. 300 $a xi, 250 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Cambridge studies in Romanticism 520 $a "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 transnational 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"-- Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: 1. The ocean of ink: a long introduction; 2. Balloonomania: the pursuit of knowledge and the culture of the spectacle; 3. Bibliomania: the rage for books and the spectacle of culture; 4. Foolish knowledge: the little world of microcosmopolitan literature; 5. Uncommon animals: literary professionalism in the age of authors; 6. The learned pig: enlightening the reading public; 7. Afterword: a swinish multitude: the tyranny of fashion in the 1790s; 8. Works cited. 650 0 $a English literature $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z England $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Commerce in literature. 650 0 $a Materialism in literature. 650 0 $a Modernism (Literature) $z England. 650 0 $a National characteristics, British, in literature. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. $2 bisacsh 830 0 $a Cambridge studies in Romanticism. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018015231.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D83992C0C4D411E18910E79C6AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search