Overview
- Explores the impact of the development of media technologies on social and cultural life: the anxieties caused by the transformation of Britain into literate society
- Examines the hopes and fears awoken by the popularisation of print
- Analyses the contribution of literary texts to the definition of modern authorship, the conceptualisation of reading, and the description of the roles patrons and booksellers as mediators between writers and readers
Part of the book series: New Directions in Book History (NDBH)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
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 of literacy, the proliferation of writing and the emergence of print marketplace made in the social and cultural life of Britain and demonstrated the contingency of the emerging criticism on the technological and economic conditions of book production. The first part focusses on the representation of the tensions created by the emergence of literate society and on the hopes and fears awoken by the expansion of the cultural public sphere caused by the proliferation of print. The second part explores the contribution of literature to the shaping of the roles of authors, readers and patrons in the field of literary production.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Representations of Book Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Imaginative Writing
Authors: Joanna Maciulewicz
Series Title: New Directions in Book History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92609-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92608-7Published: 02 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06472-3Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92609-4Published: 21 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-6117
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6125
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 288
Topics: History of the Book, Eighteenth-Century Literature, History of Britain and Ireland