<p>“Shapiro’s [work] squarely and massively dissects market ideology. . . . [It] is what Harold Bloom would call a <i>strong</i> reading, with all the risks and benefits that boldness implies. . . . Shapiro reduces the era’s economic influences to an alliterative quartet—sensibility, sensational consumption, slavery, and sentiment. Although these terms have long been associated with eighteenth-century culture, their combination in a kind of social compound—a geoculture—is particularly powerful here. . . . <i>Culture and Commerce</i> is a massive, often brilliant, utterly original synthesis exposing important elements of the period’s structure of feeling.”</p><p>—Joseph Fichtelberg <i>Early American Literature</i></p>

<p>“<i>Culture and Commerce</i> is a massive, often brilliant, utterly original synthesis exposing important elements of the period’s structure of feeling.”</p><p>—Joseph Fichtelberg <i>Early American Literature</i></p>

<p>“Shapiro’s theory of the early American novel—grounded in the cultural realities of the historical moment and informed by an economic theory that thinks beyond the nation-state—is compelling.</p><p>”</p><p>—Betsy Klimasmith <i>Eighteenth Century Fiction</i></p>

<p>“In <i>The Culture and Commerce of the Early American Novel: Reading the Atlantic World-System</i>, Stephen Shapiro provides a compelling account of the emergence of the American novel as a cultural form deeply implicated within the global economic transitions of the 1790s. While the novel in the new United States is the ostensible focus of this book, Shapiro skillfully moves through an account of the economic, social, and intellectual worlds of the late eighteenth century to situate the cultural work of this literary form.”</p><p>—Adam C. Lewis <i>Resources for American Literary Study</i></p>