Screen LibraryAdvertising, subjectivity and the nineteenth-century novel Dickens, Balzac and the language of the walls /
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...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230236745 |
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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. |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2009. |
| Carrier Form: | 228 p. : 23 b&w, halftones. |
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9780230008328 9780230236745 : 023023674X : |
| CLC: | I11 |
| Contents: | Contents Acknowledgements List of figures Introduction THE LANGUAGE OF THE WALLS: SPACES, PRACTICES, SUBJECTIVITIES Thoroughfares for Inscription Moving Text/Motion Pictures Montage, Mirage and the (Mis)behavior of Language Forms of Subjection The Making of the Subject READING THE DICKENS ADVERTISER: MERGING PARATEXT AND NOVEL The Floating Gaze 'Anti-Bleak House' Gothic Mechanisms of Advertisement and Novel BALZAC'S REVOLUTION OF SIGNS: ADVERTISEMENT AS TEXTUAL PRACTICE The Language of the Paris Walls The becoming virtual of Cesar Birotteau Dissolving Literature: lost illusions or great expe |