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Advertising and Satirical Culture in the Romantic Period

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0521882141, 9780521882149, 9780511394584
LCC
HF5813.G7 S77 2007
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16937718 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Edition
1
Pages
368\370
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Advertising, which developed in the late eighteenth century as an increasingly sophisticated and widespread form of brand marketing, would seem a separate world from that of the 'literature' of its time. Yet satirists and parodists were influenced by and responded to advertising, while copywriters borrowed from the wider literary culture, especially through poetical advertisements and comic imitation. This 2007 study to pays sustained attention to the cultural resonance and literary influences of advertising in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. John Strachan addresses the many ways in which literary figures including George Crabbe, Lord Byron and Charles Dickens responded to the commercial culture around them. With its many fascinating examples of contemporary advertisements read against literary texts, this study combines an intriguing approach to the literary culture of the day with an examination of the cultural impact of its commercial language.

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