The Culture of the Europeans: From 1800 to the PresentHarperPress, 2006 - 1617 pages "This wide-ranging and hugely ambitious book offers, for the first time ever, an integrated history of the culture produced and consumed by Europeans since 1800, and follows its transformation from an elite activity to a mass market - from lending libraries to the internet, from the first public concerts to music downloads."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Page 465
... literary market narrow . Its most important literary journal , România literară , sold only five hundred copies per issue in the 1850s . The readers of novels read , overwhelmingly , French novels of ' high ' and ' low ' quality , often ...
... literary market narrow . Its most important literary journal , România literară , sold only five hundred copies per issue in the 1850s . The readers of novels read , overwhelmingly , French novels of ' high ' and ' low ' quality , often ...
Page 477
... literary ' novel . Sales and market size are no indication , since many novels regarded by all as ' literary ' easily outsell many popular novels . To say that popular novels are those with no literary value would grant literary élites ...
... literary ' novel . Sales and market size are no indication , since many novels regarded by all as ' literary ' easily outsell many popular novels . To say that popular novels are those with no literary value would grant literary élites ...
Page 617
... literary life was described more soberly by George Gissing in his masterpiece New Grub Street ( 1891 ) . As Raymond Williams wrote , " The book is not likely to be read by any kind of writer , now , without a number of wry recognitions ...
... literary life was described more soberly by George Gissing in his masterpiece New Grub Street ( 1891 ) . As Raymond Williams wrote , " The book is not likely to be read by any kind of writer , now , without a number of wry recognitions ...
Contents
The PreConditions Sources of Cultural Expansion | 3 |
Triumphant Languages | 21 |
Publishing | 41 |
Copyright | |
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