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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.

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Recognizing Characters Pt. 1: The Economies of Characteristic Writing 1: Fleshing Out Characters 2: Fictions of Social Circulation, 1742-1782 Pt. 2: Inside Stories 3: "Round" Characters and Romantic-Period Reading Relations 4: Agoraphobia and Interiority in Frances Burney's Fiction 5: Jane Austen and the Social Machine Conclusion: The Real Thing and the "Work" of Literature in Nineteenth-Century Culture Notes Index

The Economy of Character Novels Market Culture

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 5/13/1998 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780226498195
      978-0226498195
      ISBN-10 0226498190
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      Literary studies: fiction Literary theory Social, group or collective psychology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Recognizing Characters Pt. 1: The Economies of Characteristic Writing 1: Fleshing Out Characters 2: Fictions of Social Circulation, 1742-1782 Pt. 2: Inside Stories 3: "Round" Characters and Romantic-Period Reading Relations 4: Agoraphobia and Interiority in Frances Burney's Fiction 5: Jane Austen and the Social Machine Conclusion: The Real Thing and the "Work" of Literature in Nineteenth-Century Culture Notes Index

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