Search for dissertations about: "Claire Squires"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Claire Squires.

2. 1. "Take a Taste" : Selling Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales in 1934

   Author : Moa Matthis; Heidi Hansson; Claire Squires; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; marketability; Book-of-the-Month-Club; consumer culture; commercialism; colonial Kenya; feudal ideal; aristocracy; identity; malleability; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : This study explores the marketability of Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales, published in the US in 1934. The term marketability is used to refer to the book as a potentially desirable object for sale on the market, successfully promoted by the Book-of-the-Month-Club whose members were intent on educating themselves and refining their taste. READ MORE