TY  - BOOK
AU  - StClair,William
TI  - The reading nation in the Romantic period
SN  - 9780521699440
U1  - 028.9 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Cambridge, Reino Unido
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - ARMARC
KW  - Libros y lectura
KW  - Aspectos sociales
KW  - Historia
KW  - Industrias y comercio del libro
KW  - Literatura inglesa
KW  - Historia y crítica
KW  - Literatura y sociedad
KW  - Inglaterra
KW  - Vida intelectual
N1  - Reading and its consequences. -- Economic characteristics of the printed-book industry. -- Intellectual property. -- Anthologies, abridgements, and the development of commercial vested interests in prolonging the obsolete. -- The high monopoly period in England. -- The explosion of Reading. -- The old canon. – Shakespeare. -- Literary production in the romantic period. – Manufacturing. -- Selling, prices, and Access. – Romance. -- Reading constituencies. -- Horizons of expectations. -- ‘Those vile french Piracies’. -- ‘Preparatory schools for the brothel and the gallows’. -- At the boundaries of the reading nation. – Frankenstein. -- North America. -- Reading, reception, and dissemination. -- The romantic poets in the Victorian age. -- The political economy of Reading. – Appendices: Markets, book production, prices, and print runs. -- Intellectual property and textual controls. Custom, law and practice. -- Intellectual property. Rights of authors and performers, anthologies and abridgements. -- Intellectual property. Popular literature, England. -- Book costs, prices, and margins. Romantic period and later. -- The old canon. -- Romantic period. Book production arranged by literary genre. – Periodicals. -- Romantic period. Authors and texts. Publishing histories, prices, print runs, and sales. -- Libraries and reading societies. -- Pirate and radical publishers and publications. – Shakespeare. -- The romantic poets in Victorian times
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