Producing the Eighteenth-century Book: Writers and Publishers in England

Laura L Runge

ISBN 10: 0874130697 / ISBN 13: 9780874130690

Edité par University of Delaware Press, 2009

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Includes twelve essays on the history of the book in the long eighteenth century that collectively argue for the importance of integrating literary scholarship and the various practices of book history. This work offers detailed attention to Pope, Manley, Johnson, Richardson, Burney, Curll, and Dodsley among others.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Producing the Eighteenth-century Book: Writers and Publishers in England
• Éditeur: University of Delaware Press
• Date de parution: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0874130697
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780874130690
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Good

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Synopsis

This volume includes twelve essays on the history of the book in the long eighteenth century that collectively argue for the importance of integrating literary scholarship and the various practices of book history. The themes include: a rectification of the tendency in literary studies to be blind to the materiality of the book; a focus on the ways that eighteenth-century expectations for books differ from contemporary ideas; the identification of the roles of writers and publishers as reciprocal and competing; the development of modern conventions of the material book; the ways in which the forms of books inform and influence literature and vice versa; the significance of commercial pressures on eighteenth-century book production; the parallels to be drawn between the eighteenth-century expansion of print and our own transformation to digital media. Detailed attention is given to Pope, Manley, Johnson, Richardson, Burney, Curll, and Dodsley among others. The book contains thirty-five illustrations. Laura L. Runge is a professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of South Florida. Pat Rogers is DeBartolo Professor in the Liberal Arts at the University of South Florida.