Reviews
A book that has an entire chapter on Lord Byron and 'branding'— who would not be intrigued?... Highly Recommended.
This book substantially enriches our understanding not just of British Romanticism but also of the history of advertising... The book's thoroughly historical argument works within the sub-fields of print culture and material culture to reveal the intimate connections between consumer culture and literary writing... Mason's work performs a number of valuable services for the study of Romanticism... This book deserves attention.
Mason's Literary Advertising provides a valuable contribution to our understanding of how the Romantic literary system actually worked... Mason persuasivley shows how thoroughly connected art and commerce became in the period despite Romantic posturing about artistic independence.
Literary Advertising and the Shaping of British Romanticism helpfully chronicles the rise of advertising in periodicals, highlighting its methods and subjects... A valuable book.
Mason's book is a timely corrective to the outdated idea that Romantic reviewing was a practice of nonstop aggression.
As Nicholas Mason notes in his well-rounded study of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century advertising history and literary culture, today's promotional culture owes a great deal to methods pioneered by key figures of the Georgian and Romantic period.
Literary Advertising effectively draws the right kind of critical attention to the multiple ways in which the trade in Romantic poetic productions both influenced and commercially exploited innovative marketing techniques that quickly became industry norms in the nineteenth century; furthermore, Mason is persuasive in his concluding arguments, supported by testimony from period writers, editors, and booksellers themselves...
Nicholas Mason's Literary Advertising and the Shaping of British Romanticism is an illuminating reminder of the importance of economics and system in the production of the literature that we have come to call Romantic.
A well-written, thoroughly researched, and impressively argued project. Mason has produced a timely and important addition that will do a great deal to clarify and enrich an already energetic set of debates. This book will become required reading for anyone interested in the rich connections between advertising, cultures of modernity, and Romantic literature.
Book Details
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Entangled Histories
1. Advertising in the Romantic Century
2. The Progress of Puffery
3. Building Brand Byron
4. L.E.L., Bandwagon Marketing, and the Rise of Visual Culture
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Entangled Histories
1. Advertising in the Romantic Century
2. The Progress of Puffery
3. Building Brand Byron
4. L.E.L., Bandwagon Marketing, and the Rise of Visual Culture
5. Puffery and the "Death" of Literature in Late-Romantic Britain
Conclusion: The Art of Advertising
Notes
Bibliography
Index