The reading nation in the Romantic period

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2005-02-01otherChoice Reviews Online1,549 citationsclosed

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Abstract

Illustrations Tables Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Reading and its consequences 2. Economic characteristics of the printed book industry 3. Intellectual property 4. Anthologies, abridgment, and the development of commercial vested interests in prolonging the obsolete 5. The high monopoly period in England 6. The explosion of reading 7. The old canon 8. Shakespeare 9. Literary production in the Romantic period 10. Manufacturing 11. Selling, prices, and access 12. Romance 13. Reading constituencies 14. Horizons of expectations 15. 'Those vile French piracies' 16. 'Preparatory schools for the brothel and the gallows' 17. At the boundaries of the reading nation 18. Frankenstein 19. North America 20. Reading, reception, and dissemination 21. The romantic poets in the Victorian age 22. The political economy of reading.

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