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This book offers an original study of the debates which arose in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature. Paul Keen shows how these debates were situated at the intersection of the French Revolution and a more gradual revolution in information and literacy reflecting the aspirations of the professional classes in eighteenth-century England. He shows these movements converging in hostility to a new class of readers, whom critics saw as dangerously subject to the effects of seditious writings or the vagaries of literary fashion. The first part of the book concentrates on the dominant arguments about the role of literature and the status of the author; the second shifts its focus to the debates about working-class activists, radical women authors, and the Orientalists, and examines the growth of a Romantic ideology within this context of political and cultural turmoil.

Authorship --- Books and reading --- English literature --- Literature and society --- Literature --- Printing --- Romanticism --- Public opinion --- History --- History and criticism. --- 820 "17/18" --- 930.85.48 --- 930.85:02 --- 028 --- 82:396 --- -Books and reading --- -English literature --- -Literature --- -Printing --- -Romanticism --- -Literature and society --- -82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- Literatuur en feminisme --- 028 Lezen. Lectuur --- Lezen. Lectuur --- 930.85.48 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Verlichting; Aufklärung --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Verlichting; Aufklärung --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements --- Printing, Practical --- Typography --- Graphic arts --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Authoring (Authorship) --- Writing (Authorship) --- 930.85:02 Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis-:-Bibliotheekwezen --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis-:-Bibliotheekwezen --- 820 "17/18" Engelse literatuur--18e en 19e eeuw. Periode 1700-1899.--(eveneens voor boeken over recht periode 1789-1799) --- Engelse literatuur--18e en 19e eeuw. Periode 1700-1899.--(eveneens voor boeken over recht periode 1789-1799) --- -History --- -History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Great Britain --- -820 "17/18" --- -Authorship --- 82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- History and criticism --- 18th century --- 1789-1820 --- Literature - Public opinion - Great Britain - History - 18th century. --- Authorship - Public opinion - Great Britain - History - 18th century. --- Printing - Great Britain - History - 18th century. --- Arts and Humanities

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Paul Keen explores how a consumer revolution which reached its peak in the second half of the eighteenth century shaped debates about the role of literature in a polite modern nation, and tells the story of the resourcefulness with which many writers responded to these pressures. From dream reveries which mocked their own entrepreneurial commitments, such as Oliver Goldsmith's account of selling his work at a 'Fashion Fair' on the frozen Thames, to the Microcosm's mock plan to establish 'a licensed warehouse for wit', writers insistently tied their literary achievements to a sophisticated understanding of the uncertain complexities of a modern transactional society. This book combines a new understanding of late eighteenth-century literature with the materialist and sociological imperatives of book history and theoretically inflected approaches to cultural history.

Commerce in literature --- English literature --- Literature and society --- Materialism in literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- National characteristics, British, in literature --- 82 "17" --- 82:30 --- 930.85 --- 930.85 Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis --- 82 "17" Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- History and criticism --- History --- Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- Commerce in literature. --- Materialism in literature. --- National characteristics, British, in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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This book explores the ways that critics writing in the early nineteenth century developed arguments in favour of the humanities in the face of utilitarian pressures. Its focus reflects the ways that similar pressures today have renewed the question of how to make the case for the public value of the humanities. The good news is that in many ways, this self-reflexive challenge is precisely what the humanities have always done best: highlight the nature and the force of the narratives that have helped to define how we understand our society – its various pasts and its possible futures – and to suggest the larger contexts within which these issues must ultimately be situated. .

Philosophy --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Literature --- History of civilization --- etnologie --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- filosofie --- literatuur --- literatuurgeschiedenis --- anno 1800-1899 --- Europe

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"This ground-breaking collection of essays presents a new bookish literary history, which situates questions about books at the intersection of a range of debates about the role of authors and readers, the organization of knowledge, the vogue for collecting, and the impact of overlapping technologies of writing and shifting generic boundaries"--Provided by publisher.

Book history --- Sociology of literature --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Great Britain --- Authorship --- Book industries and trade --- Books and reading --- Literature and society --- History --- 094:820 --- 820 <41> --- 820 "17" --- 820 "18" --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Engelse literatuur --- Engelse literatuur--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Engelse literatuur--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- Engelse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- 820 "18" Engelse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- 820 "17" Engelse literatuur--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- 820 <41> Engelse literatuur--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 094:820 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Engelse literatuur --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- Authoring (Authorship) --- Writing (Authorship) --- Appraisal --- Evaluation

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Philosophy --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Literature --- History of civilization --- etnologie --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- filosofie --- literatuur --- literatuurgeschiedenis --- anno 1800-1899 --- Europe