The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning by Deidre Shauna Lynch

The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning

Deidre Shauna Lynch

332 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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At the start of the eighteenth century, talk of literary "characters" referred as much to letters and typefaces as it did to persons in books. Yet by the nineteenth century, characters had become the equals of their readers, friends with whom read...

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