Literature's social lives: a socio-institutional history of literary value

'Literature's Social Lives' situates itself within an emerging field of a sociologically attuned literary criticism, which combines ethnographic interest in the aesthetics of literary experience with a curiosity about how literature gains cultural relevance and institutional authority...

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Main Author: Leypoldt, Günter (Author)
Format: Book/Monograph
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Oxford University Press [2025]
Series:Oxford studies in American literary history
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DOI:10.1093/9780197815144.001.0001
Online Access:Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig: https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197815144.001.0001
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Author Notes:Günter Leypoldt
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Summary:'Literature's Social Lives' situates itself within an emerging field of a sociologically attuned literary criticism, which combines ethnographic interest in the aesthetics of literary experience with a curiosity about how literature gains cultural relevance and institutional authority. In this groundbreaking study, Günter Leypoldt argues that ever-rising turnover of books between 1800 and 2000 expanded the commercial literary marketplace, yet by inverse subsidy simultaneously stabilized literature's market-sheltered support systems.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 15, 2025)
Physical Description:Online Resource
ISBN:9780197815144
DOI:10.1093/9780197815144.001.0001