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SUMMARY:Crime\, Passion and Adventure: Victorian Popular Fiction\, Counter-
 Discourses and Book Markets
DESCRIPTION:In nineteenth century Britain\, literacy spread among ever grow
 ing circles of the population. While prose fiction was popular among all c
 lasses\, there were initially quite distinct markets and types of fiction 
 for the working and the middle classes: sensational crime and mystery stor
 ies in particularly cheap formats at one end of the spectrum\, and the ‘
 serious’ and expensive realist novel at the other. The popular narrative
 s provided a platform for questioning the dominant middle-class ideologies
  of the time\, particularly the master-discourse of domesticity. In the la
 ter Victorian period\, the distinction between the book markets faded\, an
 d a middle-class readership increasingly solicited the topics previously a
 ssociated with the lower sections of both the print market and society. In
  this lecture\, I combine a discourse-theoretical approach with insights f
 rom book history and literary sociology to argue that reading expectations
  and reading experiences emerge from a complex network of social\, cogniti
 ve-emotional\, and material factors.
X-ALT-DESC:<p>In nineteenth century Britain\, literacy spread among ever gr
 owing circles of the population. While prose fiction was popular among all
  classes\, there were initially quite distinct markets and types of fictio
 n for the working and the middle classes: sensational crime and mystery st
 ories in particularly cheap formats at one end of the spectrum\, and the 
 ‘serious’ and expensive realist novel at the other. The popular narrat
 ives provided a platform for questioning the dominant middle-class ideolog
 ies of the time\, particularly the master-discourse of domesticity. In the
  later Victorian period\, the distinction between the book markets faded\,
  and a middle-class readership increasingly solicited the topics previousl
 y associated with the lower sections of both the print market and society.
  In this lecture\, I combine a discourse-theoretical approach with insight
 s from book history and literary sociology to argue that reading expectati
 ons and reading experiences emerge from a complex network of social\, cogn
 itive-emotional\, and material factors.</p>
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