The Economy of Literary Form
Subtitle: English Literature and the Industrialization of Publishing, 1800-1850
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: March 3, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780801863585
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Publishing industry; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; Publishing; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; United Kingdom, Great Britain; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: The invention and development of stereotyping and the Four-drinier papermaking machine in the early 1800s, followed by that of the power press, have long been recognized as the technological foundation for the flowering of nineteenth-century English publishing in all of its profusion and for the rise of the common reader, who was enlightened and entertained by this renaissance in printing.