Literature's social lives : a socio-institutional history of literary value /
'Literature's Social Lives' situates itself within an emerging field of a sociologically attuned literary criticism, which combines ethnographic interest in the aesthetics of literary experience with a curiosity about how literature gains cultural relevance and institutional authority...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Oxford studies in American literary history.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 'Literature's Social Lives' situates itself within an emerging field of a sociologically attuned literary criticism, which combines ethnographic interest in the aesthetics of literary experience with a curiosity about how literature gains cultural relevance and institutional authority. In this groundbreaking study, Gunter Leypoldt argues that ever-rising turnover of books between 1800 and 2000 expanded the commercial literary marketplace, yet by inverse subsidy simultaneously stabilized literature's market-sheltered support systems. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197815144 0197815146 9780197815113 0197815111 |