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028			_a: International Book Distributors _b: Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi. _c: 118796 _d: 20/01/2023
082			_a028.9 CLA
100			_aSt. Clair, William.
245			_aThe reading nation in the Romantic period _c/ William St. Clair.
260			_a, Cambridge, U.K. _b: Cambridge University Press _c, 2004.
300			_a xxix, 765 pages _b : illustrations _c ; 24 cm.
365			_b3294
505			_a 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
520			_aMost 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
650			_aBook industries and trade History
650			_aEngland Intellectual life
650			_aIntellectual life
650			_aLivres Industrie Histoire
700			_aWilliam St Clair
942			_cBOOK
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