| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780415949842 | | Publisher: Routledge | | Publish Date: 5/30/2005 | | Buy.com Sku: 39868698 | | Item#: BYNQHM | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9.25H x 6.25L x 1T | | Pages: 352 |
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| | | In early nineteenth-century America, the production and commercial distribution of reading matter came face-to-face with social literary practices. As mass readerships emerged, so did a mass authorship grasping after newly available "literary dollars." Yet they did not immediately embrace market values. Instead, writers--even heavily promoted literary celebrities--struggled to preserve some semblance of "social sense," rooted in social authorship and dissemination practices. Summoning a host of ordinary American's voices in diaries and letters, the Zborays uncover a neglected, yet pivotal moment in modern mass-market publishing between its elite-driven past and its corporate-directed future. Literary Dollars and Social Sense shows common Americans apprehending the newly industrialized literary marketplace through their reading and gossping, addressing it through their writing and editing, and serving it through their vending and distributing.
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