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What is the value of literature? In this important new work, Thomas Docherty charts a new economic history of literary culture and its institutions in the modern age. From the literary patronage of the early modern period, through the colonial exploitation of the 18th and 19th centuries to the insti...

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Main Author:	Docherty, Thomas, 1955- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2018]
Subjects:	Economics and literature. Capitalism and literature. Culture > Economic aspects. Politics and literature. Education > Social aspects. Values in literature. Privatization. Literature and society.