The Economy of Character
Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning
332 pages, 8 halftones 6 x 9
©
1998
Cloth $59.00
ISBN: 9780226498195
Published May 1998
Paper $26.00
ISBN: 9780226498201
Published May 1998
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Recognizing Characters
Pt. 1: The Economies of Characteristic Writing
1: Fleshing Out Characters
2: Fictions of Social Circulation, 1742-1782
Pt. 2: Inside Stories
3: "Round" Characters and Romantic-Period Reading Relations
4: Agoraphobia and Interiority in Frances Burney's Fiction
5: Jane Austen and the Social Machine
Conclusion: The Real Thing and the "Work" of Literature in Nineteenth-Century Culture
Notes
Index
Awards
- Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book
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