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 Supérieure 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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