Reading, Publishing and the Formation of Literary Taste in England, 1880-1914

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - Literary Criticism - 209 pages
Between 1880 and 1914, England saw the emergence of an unprecedented range of new literary forms from Modernism to the popular thriller. Not coincidentally, this period also marked the first overt references to an art/market divide through which books too
 

Contents

Modernity and the Reading Public
1
W H Smith and the Railway Bookstall
51
Oxford University
85
72
109
Marie Corelli Hall Caine
117
The Literary Field before
155
Conclusion
193
Index
207
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Mary Hammond is Lecturer in Literature and Book History at the Open University, UK.

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