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Judging new wealth : popular publishing and responses to commerce in England, 1750-1800 /

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This is an interdisciplinary study of literature and the book trade in the second half of the 18th century. Raven challenges the notion that prejudice against the businessman was a late 19th-century phenomenon and examines the representation of the newly wealthy during a period of change and instabi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Raven, James, 1959- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Clarendon, 1992.
Subjects:
Publishers and publishing > England > History > 18th century.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain > Commerce > History > 18th century.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Commerce
English literature
Publishers and publishing
England
Great Britain
1700-1799
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Publishing Profiles
  • Book Trade Research
  • Publication Analysis
  • Booksellers and Markets
  • Promotion and Defence
  • Merchants, Gentility, and Christian Conduct
  • Defending Trade in the Provinces: The Gentleman Merchant and Mrs Gomersall of Leeds
  • Vulgarity and Social Grammar
  • Reactions to Fashion and Luxury
  • Fears of Ruination
  • Pretensions to Land
  • Assumptive Gentry and the Threat to Stability
  • Historical Perspectives.