Mastering the Marketplace by Anne O'neil-Henry

Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
Summary

Examines the origins of modern mass-media culture through developments in the new literary marketplace of nineteenth-century France and how literature itself reveals the broader social and material conditions in which it is produced. Through new literary readings and original archival research, Anne O'Neil-Henry revises existing understandings of the development of industrialized culture.

The feel-good place to buy books
  • Free US shipping over $15
  • Buying preloved emits 41% less CO2 than new
  • Millions of affordable books
  • Give your books a new home - sell them back to us!

Mastering the Marketplace by Anne O'neil-Henry

Examines the origins of modern mass-media culture through developments in the new literary marketplace of nineteenth-century France and how literature itself reveals the broader social and material conditions in which it is produced. Through new literary readings and original archival research, Anne O'Neil-Henry revises existing understandings of the development of industrialized culture.
“A model of interdisciplinary research, presented with gratifying clarityMastering the Marketplace makes original contributions to the cultural study of early to mid-nineteenth-century France on a number of fronts.”-Andrea Goulet, professor of French at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Legacies of the Rue Morgue: Science, Space, and Crime Fiction in France
  “Unique in the way that it examines the paradoxes of what we now consider ‘low’ and ‘high’ literature against a social framework remarkably like our own. . . . Eminently readable.”-Elizabeth Emery, professor of French at Montclair State University and author of Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum (1881–1914): Privacy, Publicity, and Personality
Anne O’Neil-Henry is an assistant professor of French at Georgetown University.
SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9781496201980
ISBN 10 1496201981
Title Mastering the Marketplace
Author Anne O'neil-Henry
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher University of Nebraska Press
Year published 2017-12-01
Number of pages 258
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.