The Serialized Novel in the Nineteenth Century

Video / 90 Min / Commerce & Culture
This is the fifth lecture in the Commerce & Culture Course
SYNOPSIS

A ten-lecture course presented by Paul Cantor, Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English at the University of Virginia, and a pioneer in literary criticism from an Austrian perspective. Having studied with Mises, he is working to counter the Marxist understanding of culture that dominates the humanities today.

 

A study of the first form of culture mass-marketed as a commodity.  The distinctive nature of print culture.  Focus on Dickens.  The art of the cliffhanger.  Mass culture and artistic feedback. How the novel evolves over time.