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Advertising, Subjectivity and the Nineteenth-Century Novel S. Thornton

Advertising, Subjectivity and the Nineteenth-Century Novel By S. Thornton

Advertising, Subjectivity and the Nineteenth-Century Novel by S. Thornton

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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.

Advertising, Subjectivity and the Nineteenth-Century Novel Summary

Advertising, Subjectivity and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Dickens, Balzac and the Language of the Walls by S. Thornton

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.

Advertising, Subjectivity and the Nineteenth-Century Novel Reviews

'Thornton has a real gift for detailed, nuanced textual analyses. Shae also shows an impressive ability to draw upon a variety of critical and social theoriests, rangingb from Freud and Benjamin to Agamben and Butler, to add conceptual depth without diverting the argument in tangential or otherwise unproductive directions.'

- Nicholas Mason, Associate Professor of English, Brigham Young University, USA, New Books Online 19

About S. Thornton

SARA THORNTON is Professor of English at the University of Paris 7 Denis-Diderot, France. She studied French literature at the University of London, UK, and at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris before writing her PhD and 'habilitation' on Victorian literature. Publications include David Copperfield: Lectures d'une Oeuvre and Circulation and Transfer of Key Scenes in Nineteenth-century Literature.

Table of 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 expectations? Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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9780230008328
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Advertising, Subjectivity and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Dickens, Balzac and the Language of the Walls by S. Thornton
S. Thornton
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2009-03-31
214
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