Overview
- Shows the importance of compilations to multiple domains of inquiry in eighteenth-century Britain
- Revises and corrects a historical picture of compilation as a passive, neutral, marginal practice
- Offers a non-canonical reading of the period, presenting it from the perspective of the compiler
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print (PERCP)
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Keywords
- British and Irish Literature
- William Smellie
- Literature and Cultural Studies
- Anthologies
- Enlightenment
About this book
This book argues that the act of compiling texts together into collections in the eighteenth century is politically and epistemologically significant. Ranging across an Edinburgh print shop, an excluded religious community in the North of England, and the story worlds of novelists and poets, the study reveals compilation to be a politically resistant activity: it challenged centralizing and homogenizing tendencies within the growing British empire in the latter half of the eighteenth century and actively built counternarratives. Rebeca Acosta offers a fresh view of eighteenth-century literary transaction and shows how practices of compilation in the period were more diversified and had a far greater impact on readers than their modern descendants.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Rebeca Araya Acosta is Lecturer in the English department of Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Her main research area is the long eighteenth century with an emphasis on print culture and the interaction between science and literature.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Compiling Texts in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Book Subtitle: Accounting for Lives, Politics, and Knowledge
Authors: Rebeca Araya Acosta
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
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), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-63835-0Due: 01 October 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-63838-1Due: 01 October 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-63836-7Due: 01 October 2024
Series ISSN: 2634-6516
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6524
Edition Number: 1
Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour