عنوان

The appearance of print in eighteenth-century fiction /

شابک

1107008395

شابک

9781107008397

شماره

b519798

عنوان اصلي

The appearance of print in eighteenth-century fiction /

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Christopher Flint

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Cambridge University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2011

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xi, 282 p. :

ساير جزييات

ill. ;

ابعاد

24 cm

متن يادداشت

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

متن يادداشت

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

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"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"--

موضوع مستند نشده

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

موضوع مستند نشده

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

موضوع مستند نشده

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

موضوع مستند نشده

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

موضوع مستند نشده

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

موضوع مستند نشده

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

موضوع مستند نشده

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

موضوع مستند نشده

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

موضوع مستند نشده

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

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Flint, Christopher,1957-

تاريخ عمليات

20111216115601.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y