uncontrolled
             spread of which Richardson and Fielding produce their novels as warning, antidote and cure" (p.581. Italics mine).
             But it is in his defining of the hearts and minds of the reading public and period academia as "the common cultural space" (p580), that, coupled with this extract from page 579 that, I suggest, best illustrates Warner' political base;
             "In such a commodified cultural system , events at the site
             of consumption engender a feed-back loop that modifies activity
             Here Warner conceptualise readers as "consumers", authors as "producers" and the market place as "a cultural system". This demonstrates what can easily be taken as Marxist rationale.
             I offer that we might take the Marxism of Warner "as read" but it is interesting to see that he has turned away from the rather
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