The haunted study: A social history of the English novel, 1875-1914
by Keating, P. J
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0436232480
- ISBN 13
- 9780436232480
- Seller
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About This Item
London : Secker & Warburg, 1989 8vo (24 cm), IX, 533 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). This study aims to place English fiction in the context of a culture in the throes of dynamic change. The period that produced Trollope, Stevenson, Wilde, Henry James and Virginia Woolf also encompassed Rider Haggard, Conan Doyle, Ethel M.Dell, H.de Vere Stacpole, "Boys' Own Paper" and the Religious Tract Society, and ran from the heyday of the triple-decker to the birth of the cheap reprint, and the commercial devices for selling books ran in harness with the developing profession of authorship. The author sets this flowering of literacy firmly in the social context of the developing attitudes that shaped a society in transition. While late Victorian notions were subject to traumatic change under the impact of post-Darwinian social theory, new approaches to economics, radical concepts of religion, the family, empire, there were parallel forces in play in the business of authorship and the trade of publishing.
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- Bookseller
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko (PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007836
- Title
- The haunted study: A social history of the English novel, 1875-1914
- Author
- Keating, P. J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0436232480
- ISBN 13
- 9780436232480
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1989
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
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