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Judging new wealth : popular publishing and responses to commerce in England, 1750-1800
- Title
- Judging new wealth : popular publishing and responses to commerce in England, 1750-1800 / James Raven.
- Author
- Raven, James, 1959-
- Publication
- Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
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- Description
- viii, 327 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm
- Summary
- In this broad-ranging interdisciplinary study, Raven explores literature and the book trade in the second half of the eighteenth century. Based on intensive research into the production and sale of literature ranging from novels and periodical essays to courtesy books and popular manuals, the book examines the representation of the newly wealthy. Raven challenges the notion that prejudice against the businessman was a late nineteenth-century phenomenon. He shows how, during a period of often bewildering change and instability, a competitive literature industry led reaction against excessive consumer spending, contributed to the definition of legitimate economic behavior, and stimulated unprecedented attacks upon the social presumption of tradesmen. A scholarly and stimulating study, this book makes important contributions to debates on the supposed decline of the British industrial spirit class.
- Subject
- 1700-1799
- Publishers and publishing > England > History > 18th century
- English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
- Wealth > Public opinion > History > 18th century
- Literature publishing > England > History > 18th century
- Popular literature > England > History and criticism
- Popular culture > England > History > 18th century
- Businessmen in literature
- Commerce in literature
- Wealth in literature
- Commerce
- English literature
- Literature publishing
- Popular culture
- Popular literature
- Publishers and publishing
- Wealth > Public opinion
- Populaire werken
- Engels
- Kooplieden
- Rijkdom
- Literatuurreceptie
- Publishers and publishing > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Wealth > Great Britain > Public opinion > 18th century
- Literature publishing > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Popular literature > Great Britain > 18th century > History and criticism
- Popular culture > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Great Britain > Commerce > History > 18th century
- England
- Great Britain
- Great Britain > Commerce > Public opinion > 18th century
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0198202377
- 9780198202370
- LCCN
- 91041492
- OCLC
- ocm24701175
- 24701175
- SCSB-1950409
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library