Advertising, Subjectivity and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Dickens, Balzac and the Language of the Walls - Hardcover

by S. Thornton (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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.