Representations of Book Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Imaginative Writing
Authors: Maciulewicz, Joanna
Free Preview- Explores the impact of the development of media technologies on social and cultural life: the anxieties caused by the transformation of Britain into literate societyExamines the hopes and fears awoken by the popularisation of printAnalyses 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
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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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Joanna Maciulewicz is Assistant Professor at the Department of English Literature, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Representations of Book Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Imaginative Writing
- Authors
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- Joanna Maciulewicz
- Series Title
- New Directions in Book History
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-92609-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-92609-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-92608-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-06472-3
- Series ISSN
- 2634-6117
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VII, 288
- Topics
