Literature in the Marketplace

This innovative collection of essays addresses important issues in the history of the book. The multidisciplinary essays consider different aspects of the production circulation and consumption of printed texts analyzing such topics as market trends modes of publication and the use of pseudonyms by women writers. Contributors draw on speech act reader response and gender theory in addition to historical narratological materialist and bibliographical perspectives to study authors such as Dickens the Bronts and George Eliot.