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.

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'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

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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 Supérieure 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.

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Book Title: Advertising, Subjectivity and the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Book Subtitle: Dickens, Balzac and the Language of the Walls
Authors: Sara Thornton
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230236745
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-00832-8Published: 31 March 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-23674-5Published: 04 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2634-6494
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6508
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 214
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Cultural History, Literary History, Nineteenth-Century Literature

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

The Language of the Walls: Spaces, Practices, Subjectivities

Reading the Dickens Advertiser: Merging Paratext and Novel

Balzac’s Revolution of Signs: Advertisement as Textual Practice

Conclusion

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