James Thomson's the Seasons, Print Culture, and Visual Interpretation, 1730-1842

by Sandro Jung

Book Overview

Drawing on the methods of textual and reception studies, book history, print culture research, and visual culture, this interdisciplinary study of James Thomson's The Seasons (1730) understands the text as marketable commodity and symbolic capital which throughout its extended affective presence in the marketplace for printed literary editions shaped reading habits. At the same time, through the addition of paratexts such as memoirs of Thomson, notes,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161146319X
• ISBN13: 9781611463194
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Lehigh University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"