St. Clair, William. creator William St Clair text Cambridge, U.K : Cambridge University Press , 2004 monographic eng

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xxix, 765 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Most people believed that reading significantly influenced minds, attitudes, and actions during the centuries when printed paper was the only means by which texts could travel across time and distance. William St. Clair offers a very different picture of the past from those presented by traditional approaches through quantified information he provides on book prices, print runs, intellectual property, and readerships gathered from over fifty publishing and printing archives 1. Reading and its consequences 2. Economic characteristics of the printed book industry 3. Intellectual property 4. Anthologies, abridgment, and the development of commercial vested interests in prolonging the obsolete 5. The high monopoly period in England 6. The explosion of reading 7. The old canon 8. Shakespeare 9. Literary production in the romantic period 10. Manufacturing 11. Selling, prices, and access 12. Romance 13. Reading constituencies 14. Horizons of expectations 15. 'Those vile French piracies' 16. 'Preparatory schools for the brothel and the gallows' 17. At the boundaries of the reading nation 18. Frankenstein 19. North America 20. Reading, reception, and dissemination 21. The romantic poets in the Victorian age 22. The political economy of reading / William St. Clair. Book industries and trade History England Intellectual life Intellectual life Livres Industrie Histoire 028.9 CLA 9780521699440 : International Book Distributors : Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi. 230131 20230131094113.0