Reading, Wanting, and Broken Economics : A Twenty-First-Century Study of Readers and Bookshops in Southampton Around 1900.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frost, Simon R.

Series:

SUNY Series in the History of Books, Publishing, and the Book Trades

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Booksellers and bookselling--Economic aspects--England--Southampton--History--20th century.

Booksellers and bookselling.

Bookstores--England--Southampton--History--20th century.

Bookstores.

Books and reading--England--Southampton--History--20th century.

Books and reading.

Books and reading--Economic aspects--England--Southampton--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021.

Summary:

Uses a historical study of bookselling and readers as a way to question and rethink our understanding of the market for symbolic goods.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Their or, Rather, Our Books

Part One Theory, Methods, Tactics, and Politics

Chapter 1 Reading and Wanting: Commodity Culture Needs Readers

Chapter 2 Book Retail: A Test Bed for Sustainable Economics

Chapter 3 Je Suis the Unknown Public

Chapter 4 When Books Come to Town: International Aspirations, High Street-Bound

Part Two Southampton Stories

Chapter 5 What's Selling in Southampton: Commodity Culture, Dock Strikes, and Gas-and-Water Socialism

Chapter 6 The Daily Round

Chapter 7 High Street Southampton Bookshops

Chapter 8 Gilbert's: A Treetop in the Networked Forest

Part Three Factual Fictions

Chapter 9 Five Visits to Gilbert's

Visit 1, Henry

Visit 2, Rita

Visit 3, the Engineer

Visit 4, Sylvie

Visit 5, Milbeya

Part Four Theory, Methods, Tactics, and Politics, 2.0

Chapter 10 Reading Entertainment and the Construction of Economic Reality

Chapter 11 Events, Frames, and History: Getting What We Want from a Book

Chapter 12 Whose Is the Question Économique?

Conclusion

Appendix: Biblioteca: Toward a Bibliography of Works Published by H.M. Gilbert and Sons

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781438483535

1438483538

OCLC:

1244536255