Title The Appearance of Print in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (296 pages) Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: prose fiction and print culture in eighteenth-century Britain; PART ONE Author book reader; 1 Pre-scripts: the contexts of literary production; Books; Readers; Authors; 2 Post scripts: the fate of the page in Charles Gildon's epistolary fiction; Caveat scriptor; Caveat léctor; Caveat emptor; Tabula rasa; PART TWO Reader book author; 3 Dark matters: printer's ornaments and thesubstitution of text; Introduction; Swift's chasms; Richardson's flowers; Sterne's stars; Doing little good 4 Inanimate fiction: circulating stories in object narrativesIf things could talk; The signs of things; Why objects speak; To coin a phrase; Circulating stories; 5 Only a female pen: women writers and fictions of the page; Introduction; Nobody to somebody; Provinces of the pen; Purchasing without publishing; "Two short but very clever novels"; A mouldering hand; Washing bills; The pen in their hands; Moving the desk closer; 6 After words; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary Explains how new print technologies and the expansion of print culture allowed eighteenth-century writers to develop the novel form Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-273) and index Notes Print version record Subject English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism Fiction -- Publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Publishers and publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Printing -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Books -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Authors and publishers -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Fiction -- Appreciation -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Authors and publishers Authors and readers Books Books and reading English fiction Fiction -- Appreciation Fiction -- Publishing Printing Publishers and publishing Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781139117845 113911784X 9781139128506 1139128507 9781107008397 1107008395 9780511996344 0511996349 9781107422469 1107422469

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