عنوان

The appearance of print in eighteenth-century fiction /

(Number (ISBN

1107008395

(Number (ISBN

9781107008397

Number

b519798

Title Proper

The appearance of print in eighteenth-century fiction /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Christopher Flint

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2011

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xi, 282 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-273) and index

Text of Note

Introduction: prose fiction and print culture in eighteenth-century Britain -- Part I. Author, Book, Reader. 1. Pre-scripts: the contexts of literary production -- 2. Post scripts: the fate of the page in Charles Gildon's epistolary fiction -- Part II. Reader, Book, Author. 3. Dark matters: printers' ornaments and the substitutions of text -- 4. Inanimate fiction: circulating stories in object narratives -- 5. Only a female pen: women writers and fictions of the page -- 6. After words -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Text of Note

"Eighteenth-century fiction holds an unusual place in the history of modern print culture. The novel gained prominence largely because of advances in publishing, but, as a popular genre, it also helped shape those very developments. Authors in the period manipulated the appearance of the page and print technology more deliberately than has been supposed, prompting new forms of reception among readers. Christopher Flint's book explores works by both obscure 'scribblers' and canonical figures, such as Swift, Haywood, Defoe, Richardson, Sterne and Austen, that interrogated the complex interactions between the book's material aspects and its producers and consumers. Flint links historical shifts in how authors addressed their profession to how books were manufactured and how readers consumed texts. He argues that writers exploited typographic media to augment other crucial developments in prose fiction, from formal realism and free indirect discourse to accounts of how 'the novel' defined itself as a genre"--

Authors and publishers-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century

Authors and readers-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century

Books and reading-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century

Books-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century

English fiction-- 18th century-- History and criticism

Fiction-- Appreciation-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century

Fiction-- Publishing-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century

Printing-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century

Publishers and publishing-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Flint, Christopher,1957-

Date of Transaction

20111216115601.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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