Representations of Book Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Imaginative Writing

• Main Author: Maciulewicz, Joanna (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: New Directions in Book History
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.