{"product_id":"the-reading-nation-in-the-romantic-period-paperback-9780521699440","title":"The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (Paperback) 9780521699440","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Reading Nation in the Romantic Period\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 2004 book investigates how the national culture can be understood through a study of books that were read.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWilliam St Clair (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521699440, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 4 January 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e796 pages, 22 b\/w illus.  13 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.5 x 16.6 x 4.3 cm, 1.06 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e' … an extraordinarily ambitious and impressive attempt to reformulate our knowledge of literary production and reception in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With nearly 300 Circle pages devoted to thirteen appendices and bibliography, The Reading Nation is one of the most useful volumes ever published on Romantic literature.' Wordsworth Circle\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDuring the four centuries when printed paper was the only means by which texts could be carried across time and distance, everyone engaged in politics, education, religion, and literature believed that reading helped to shape the minds, opinions, attitudes, and ultimately the actions, of readers. In this 2004 book, William St Clair investigates how the national culture can be understood through a quantitative study of the books that were actually read. Centred on the Romantic period in the English-speaking world, but ranging across the whole print era, it reaches startling conclusions about the forces that determined how ideas were carried, through print, into wider society. St Clair provides an in-depth investigation of information, made available here for the first time, on prices, print runs, intellectual property, and readerships gathered from over fifty publishing and printing archives. He offers a picture of the past very different from those presented by traditional approaches. Indispensable to students of English literature, book history, and the history of ideas, the study's conclusions and explanatory models are highly relevant to the issues we face in the age of the internet.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIllustrations\u003cbr\u003e Tables\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e 1. Reading and its consequences\u003cbr\u003e 2. Economic characteristics of the printed book industry\u003cbr\u003e 3. Intellectual property\u003cbr\u003e 4. Anthologies, abridgment, and the development of commercial vested interests in prolonging the obsolete\u003cbr\u003e 5. The high monopoly period in England\u003cbr\u003e 6. The explosion of reading\u003cbr\u003e 7. The old canon\u003cbr\u003e 8. Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e 9. Literary production in the Romantic period\u003cbr\u003e 10. Manufacturing\u003cbr\u003e 11. Selling, prices, and access\u003cbr\u003e 12. Romance\u003cbr\u003e 13. Reading constituencies\u003cbr\u003e 14. Horizons of expectations\u003cbr\u003e 15. 'Those vile French piracies'\u003cbr\u003e 16. 'Preparatory schools for the brothel and the gallows'\u003cbr\u003e 17. At the boundaries of the reading nation\u003cbr\u003e 18. Frankenstein\u003cbr\u003e 19. North America\u003cbr\u003e 20. Reading, reception, and dissemination\u003cbr\u003e 21. The romantic poets in the Victorian age\u003cbr\u003e 22. The political economy of reading.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46001537843480,"sku":"9780521699440","price":42.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521699440i_ef718143-a3d0-43f6-adfd-fb85faa29464.jpg?v=1691380157","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-reading-nation-in-the-romantic-period-paperback-9780521699440","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}