Judging new wealth
Subtitle: popular publishing and responses to commerce in England, 1750-1800
By: James Raven.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Publishers and publishing -- England -- History -- 18th century.; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Wealth -- Public opinion -- History -- 18th century.; Literature publishing -- England -- History -- 18th century.; Popular literature -- England -- History and criticism.; Popular culture -- England -- History -- 18th century.; Businessmen in literature.; Commerce in literature.; Wealth in literature.; Great Britain -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century.
Description: This is an interdisciplinary study of literature and the book trade in the second half of the 18th century. Raven challenges the notion that prejudice against the businessman was a late 19th-century phenomenon and examines the representation of the newly wealthy during a period of change and instability.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [264]-314) and index.