1 option
Judging new wealth : popular publishing and responses to commerce in England, 1750-1800 / James Raven.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Raven, James, 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Publishers and publishing--England--History--18th century.
- Publishers and publishing.
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Popular culture.
- History.
- Literature publishing.
- Wealth.
- Public opinion.
- Commerce.
- England--Commerce--Public opinion--History--18th century.
- England.
- Wealth--England--Public opinion--History--18th century.
- Literature publishing--England--History--18th century.
- Popular literature--England--History and criticism.
- Popular literature.
- Popular culture--England--History--18th century.
- Businessmen in literature.
- Commerce in literature.
- Wealth in literature.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 327 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
- Summary:
- In this broad-ranging interdisciplinary study, Raven explores literature and the book trade in the second half of the eighteenth century. Based on intensive research into the production and sale of literature ranging from novels and periodical essays to courtesy books and popular manuals, the book examines the representation of the newly wealthy. Raven challenges the notion that prejudice against the businessman was a late nineteenth-century phenomenon. He shows how, during a period of often bewildering change and instability, a competitive literature industry led reaction against excessive consumer spending, contributed to the definition of legitimate economic behavior, and stimulated unprecedented attacks upon the social presumption of tradesmen. A scholarly and stimulating study, this book makes important contributions to debates on the supposed decline of the British industrial spirit class.
- Contents:
- 2 Publishing Profiles 19
- Book Trade Research 27
- Publication Analysis 31
- 3 Booksellers and Markets 42
- 4 Promotion and Defence 61
- 5 Merchants, Gentility, and Christian Conduct 83
- 6 Defending Trade in the Provinces: The Gentleman Merchant and Mrs Gomersall of Leeds 112
- 7 Vulgarity and Social Grammar 138
- 8 Reactions to Fashion and Luxury 157
- 9 Fears of Ruination 183
- 10 Pretensions to Land 201
- 11 Assumptive Gentry and the Threat to Stability 221
- 12 Historical Perspectives 249.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [264]-314) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198202377
- OCLC:
- 24701175
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.