E-grāmata: Consumerism and Prestige: The Materiality of Literature in the Modern Age

A valuable international contribution to understanding how the materiality of book publishing is closely tied to social systems of taste and prestige. Professor Andrew Piper, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, McGill University, Canada. Ranging widely across historical periods, genres, and nationalities, the essays collected in Consumerism and Prestige draw nuanced, materialist connections between the circumstances of textual production and the cultural construction of prestige as both a marketing and aesthetic category. Book historians and other scholars focused on materialist literary history will find much of interest in this volume. John Young, Professor of English, Marshall University, USA. The incisive essays in Consumerism and Prestige engage the material aspects of modern literary culture (including the highbrow, the lowbrow and everything in between) as highly suggestive markers of social status. Thoroughly transnational in scope and style, this volume provides fresh methodological impulses for material text studies and comparative literature. Dr. Alexander Starre, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Department of Culture, Freie Universität Berlin.