Judging New Wealth: Popular Publishing and Responses to Commerce in England, 1750-1800

by JamesRaven (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1992

  $249.72

  James Raven draws on detailed research into literature and the book trade in the second half of the eighteenth century to examine representations of the newly wealthy. Tracing the production and sale of literature from novels and periodical essays to courtesy books and popular manuals, he challenges the belief that prejudice against the businessman was a late nineteenth-century phenomenon.