{"product_id":"9781108822015","title":"Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900 by Matthew Sangster","description":"This collection provides students and researchers with a new and lively understanding of the role of institutions in the production, reception, and meaning of literature in the period 1700-1900. The period saw a fundamental transition from a patronage system to a marketplace in which institutions played an important mediating role between writers and readers, a shift with consequences that continue to resonate today. Often producers themselves, institutions processed and claimed authority over a variety of cultural domains that never simply tessellated into any unified system. The collection's primary concerns are British and imperial environments, with a comparative German case study, but it offers encouragement for its approaches to be taken up in a variety of other cultural contexts. From the Post Office to museums, from bricks and mortar to less tangible institutions like authorship and genre, this collection opens up a new field for literary studies.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296443740533,"sku":"9781108822015","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781108822015","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}