Advertising, Subjectivity and the Nineteenth-Century Novel by S Thornton

Advertising, Subjectivity and the Nineteenth-Century Novel by S Thornton

From 1830 to 1870 advertising brought in its wake a new understanding of how the subject read and how language operated. Sara Thornton presents a crucial moment in print culture, the early recognition of what we now call a 'virtual' world, and proposes new readings of key texts by Dickens and Balzac.

'Thornton has a real gift for detailed, nuanced textual analysesShae also shows an impressive ability to draw upon a variety of critical and social theoriests, rangingb from Freud and Benjamin to Agamben and Butler, to add conceptual depth without diverting the argument in tangential or otherwise unproductive directions.'

- Nicholas Mason, Associate Professor of English, Brigham Young University, USA, New Books Online 19

SARA THORNTON is Professor of English at the University of Paris 7 Denis-Diderot, France. She studied French literature at the University of London, UK, and at the Ecole Normale Supü¾Ž–”¼rieure in Paris before writing her PhD and 'habilitation' on Victorian literature. Publications include David Copperfield: Lectures d'une Oeuvre and Circulation and Transfer of Key Scenes in Nineteenth-century Literature.

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ISBN 13	9780230008328
ISBN 10	0230008321
Title	Advertising, Subjectivity and the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Author	S Thornton
Series	Palgrave Studies In Nineteenth-Century Writing And Culture
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Year published	2009-03-31
Number of pages	214
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