Reading, Wanting, and Broken Economics: A Twenty-First-Century Study of Readers and Bookshops in Southampton around 1900 - Paperback

by Simon R. Frost (Author)

Uses a historical study of bookselling and readers as a way to question and rethink our understanding of the market for symbolic goods.

Author Biography

Simon R. Frost is Principal Academic in English at Bournemouth University, United Kingdom. He is the author of The Business of the Novel: Economics, Aesthetics and the Case of Middlemarch.