Member Info
- First Name
- Simon
- Last Name
- Frost
- Title or position
- Principal Lecturer in English
- Affiliation
- Bournemouth University
- Profile
- Simon Frost is Principal Lecturer at Bournemouth University, Senior Commissioning Editor for Oxford University Press ORE (Oxford Research Encyclopedia); and Director of Transnational Affairs and Executive Board member of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP). He has published extensively on book history, reading, book retail and consumption, , including Business of a Novel: Economics, Aesthetics and the case of Middlemarch (2012), and articles such as “Economising in Public” (Book History, 17), “A Trade in Desires” (2016) and studies of retail organisations such as John Smith’s. He is currently awaiting publication of his latest monograph on historic reading and retail, and the consequences of only applying a neoliberal conception of consumption, Reading, Wanting and Broken Economics, expected on SUNY press in 2020/21.
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- Website, Blog or Social Media Link
- City or Town
- Bournemouth
- Country
- England
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