Representations of Book Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Imaginative Writing

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Maciulewicz, Joanna (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: New Directions in Book History
• Θέματα: Books-History.; Literature, Modern-18th century.; Great Britain-History.; History of the Book.; Eighteenth-Century Literature.; History of Britain and Ireland.

This book is a contribution to the new field of literary studies which is informed by book history and takes interest in the intersection of the ideal and material aspects of literature. It studies the ways eighteenth-century English novels, plays and poems illustrated the changes which the growth o...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. From Orality to Script: Literacy, Autonomy and Authority in Clarissa
• 3. Script, Print and the Materiality of Texts
• 4. The Stories of Reading in the Eighteenth-Century Novels
• 5. The Authors' Search for Creative Autonomy
• 6. Midwives of the Muses: Representations of the Transformation of Literary Patronage
• 7. Conclusion.-Index.