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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780226498201 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
823.509355 |
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LYN |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Lynch, Deidre Shauna |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The economy of character : novels, market culture, and the business of inner meaning |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
University of Chicago Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1998 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
London : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiii, 317 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price amount |
37.00 |
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$ |
| Unit of pricing |
89.00 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
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 companions to their readers, friends with whom readers might spend time and empathize. Although the story of this shift is usually told in terms of the "rise of the individual," Deidre Shauna Lynch proposes an ingenious alternative interpretation. Elaborating a "pragmatics of character," Lynch shows how readers used transactions with characters to accommodate themselves to newly commercialized social relations. Searching for the inner meanings of characters allowed readers both to plumb their own inwardness and to distinguish themselves from others. In a culture of mass consumption, argues Lynch, possessing a belief in the inexpressible interior life of a character rendered one's property truly private. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Literature Studies and Criticism |
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Fiction and Literature |
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Suspense and Thriller |
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Psychological fiction |
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Romanticism Great Britain |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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Books |