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The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning Lynch, Deidre Shauna (University of Toronto) 2nd edition
The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning
Lynch, Deidre Shauna (University of Toronto)
At the start of the 18th century, literary "characters" referred as much to letters and typefaces as it did to persons in books. However, this text shows how, by the 19th century, readers used transactions with characters to accommodate themselves to newly-commmercialized social relations.
326 pages, 8 halftones
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | May 13, 1998 |
| ISBN13 | 9780226498201 |
| Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
| Pages | 332 |
| Dimensions | 228 × 155 × 19 mm · 518 g |
| Language | English |