Title Everywhere and nowhere : anonymity and mediation in eighteenth-century Britain / Mark Vareschi

Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (221 pages) Series Book collections on Project MUSE Contents Introduction: Everywhere and nowhere -- Anonymous as author -- "Acting plays" and "reading plays": Intermediation and anonymity -- Attribution, circulation, and Defoea -- Motive, intention, anonymity -- Epilogue: Anonymity and media shift Summary "Everywhere and Nowhere considers the ubiquity and near invisibility of both anonymity and mediation in the publication and circulation of literature. Anonymous authorship was typical of the time, yet literary critics and historians have been generally unable to account for anonymity as anything more than a footnote or curiosity. Bringing together history and media theory, Vareschi shows the entangled and mutually revealing relationship between mediation and anonymity"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 18, 2018) Subject Anonymous writings, English -- 18th century -- History and criticism English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Authorship -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Book industries and trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Anonyms and pseudonyms, English -- History -- 18th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Anonymous writings, English Anonyms and pseudonyms, English Authorship -- Social aspects Book industries and trade English literature Great Britain Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2018039349 ISBN 9781452957814 1452957819 9781452957807 1452957800

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