{"product_id":"mastering-the-marketplace-9781496201980","title":"Mastering the Marketplace","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines the origins of modern mass-media culture through developments in the new literary marketplace of nineteenth-century France and how literature itself reveals the broader social and material conditions in which it is produced. Through new literary readings and original archival research, Anne O'Neil-Henry revises existing understandings of the development of industrialized culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Anne O'Neil-Henry's new book draws on an extraordinarily diverse corpus of novels, catalogues, newspapers, advertisements, reviews, and correspondence from the early to mid-nineteenth century to illustrate the influences on, and responses to, the changing literary market. . . . In writing about her authors' mastery of the marketplace, O'Neil-Henry in turn demonstrates her own mastery of detail, distilling material from a variety of sources and marshaling it into the service of her focused argument with admirable lucidity.\"—Adam Cutchin, \u003ci\u003eNineteenth-Century French Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eMastering the Marketplace: Popular Literature in Nineteenth-Century France\u003c\/i\u003e, Anne O'Neil-Henry delivers a clear and nuanced reading of the literary field during the July Monarchy and of the most popular novelists who operated within it, successfully showing how the boundaries of high and low on which the notion of popular literature depends were never as fixed as they seemed to critics, either then or today. . . . \u003ci\u003eMastering the Marketplace\u003c\/i\u003e goes a long way toward helping readers navigate the ambiguities and contradictions that make the nineteenth century's many different forms of popular literature so compelling.\"—Bettina Lerner, H-France\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a welcome addition to a number of studies that provide new insights into the July Monarchy as a site of modernity.\"—Whitney Walton, H-France\u003cbr\u003e\"The depth of O'Neil-Henry's analyses and her consideration of cultural capital vs. commercial capital gives the reader a new perspective on the literature of all levels produced at this time.\"—Sharon L. Fairchild, \u003ci\u003eFrench Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A model of interdisciplinary research, presented with gratifying clarity. \u003ci\u003eMastering the Marketplace\u003c\/i\u003e makes original contributions to the cultural study of early to mid-nineteenth-century France on a number of fronts.”—Andrea Goulet, professor of French at the University of Pennsylvania and author of \u003ci\u003eLegacies of the Rue Morgue: Science, Space, and Crime Fiction in France\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“Unique in the way that it examines the paradoxes of what we now consider ‘low’ and ‘high’ literature against a social framework remarkably like our own. . . . Eminently readable.”—Elizabeth Emery, professor of French at Montclair State University and author of\u003ci\u003e Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum (1881–1914): Privacy, Publicity, and Personality\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Popular Panoramas\u003cbr\u003e 2. The de Kock Paradox\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Adaptable Eugène Sue\u003cbr\u003e 4. Balzac, High and Low\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Source Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409216840023,"sku":"9781496201980","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496201980.jpg?v=1730505986","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mastering-the-marketplace-9781496201980","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}