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Title Books and their readers in eighteenth-century England : new essays / edited by Isabel Rivers
Published London ; New York : Continuum, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (x, 294 pages)
Contents NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; 1 The Book Trades; 2 The English Bible and its Readers in the Eighteenth Century; 3 Theological Books from The Naked Gospel to Nemesis of Faith; 4 The History Market in Eighteenth-Century England; 5 Biographical Dictionaries and their Uses from Bayle to Chalmers; 6 Review Journals and the Reading Public; 7 Literary Scholarship and the Life of Editing; 8 The Production and Consumption of the Eighteenth-Century Poetic Miscellany; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Summary This collection of eight new essays investigates ways in which significant kinds of 18th-century writings were designed and received by different audiences. Rivers explores the answers to certain crucial questions about the contemporary use of books. This new edition contains the results of important new research by well known specialists in the field of book and publishing history over the last two decades
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Books and reading -- England -- History -- 18th century
Popular culture -- England
Book industries and trade -- England -- History -- 18th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.
Book industries and trade
Books and reading
English literature
Intellectual life
Popular culture
Leesgewoonten.
Lezers.
Letterkunde.
Engels.
SUBJECT England -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043303
Subject England
Genre/Form Electronic book
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Rivers, Isabel.
LC no. 00054586
ISBN 1847144004
9781847144003
Other Titles Books and their readers in 18th century England