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Fergus Jan S. <1943-> |
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Titolo |
Provincial readers in eighteenth-century England [[electronic resource] /] / Jan Fergus |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-4294-9280-5 |
0-19-153820-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (327 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Books and reading - England - Midlands - History - 18th century |
English fiction - Publishing - England - History - 18th century |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [284]-296) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction; Fiction and the Archives; The 'Rise' of the Novel, Women Readers, and the Problem of Evidence; London Booksellers and their Archives; The Booksellers: The Clays and Stevens and their Communities; Clay Day Books, their Nature and Problems; Day Book and Ledger Evidence and the Market for Fiction; 1. Audiences for Novels: Gendered Reading; The Audiences for Novels and Gender; Adult Customers of the Clays and Stevens; Men, Reviews, and Book Clubs; Provincial Women Readers; Case Studies of Women Customers; Some Conclusions |
2. Consuming Practices: Canonicity, Novels, and Plays Canonization, Readers, Anonymity, and Female Novelists; Canonizing Drama; Reading Practices: Multiple and Repeated Readings; Reading Practices: Desultory Reading; 3. Schoolboy Readers: John Newbery's Goody Two-Shoes and Licensed War; Rugby School; School Culture: Licensed War; Reading Children's Books; The Case of Goody Two-Shoes; The Episodes of Goody Two-Shoes; Making Sense of Goody Two-Shoes; 4. Schoolboy Practices: Novels, Children's Books, Chapbooks, and Magazines; Accounts of Schoolboy Reading |
Little Books-Abridgements in Chapbooks versus Children's Books Schoolboys Read Novels: Rugby School; Secret Novel Reading at Rugby?; More Schoolboys Read Even More Novels: Daventry Dissenting |
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Academy; Schoolboy Subscribers to Magazines; 5. Audiences for Magazines and Serialized Publications; Men who Read the Lady's Magazine; Concealed Women Subscribers; Magazine Subscribers and the Market; Growth and Attrition in Magazine Audiences; Audiences for Magazines and Novels; Case Study: The Novelist's Magazine; Serialized Publications; Summary; Conclusion; Appendices |
1. Clays' Circulating Library Stocks 2. Novels in English Bought and Borrowed, 1744-1807; 3. All Children's Book and Chapbook Titles Bought by Rugby Boys; 4. Magazines taken by Clay customers, 1746-1780; 5. Adult consumers of Novels and Magazines, 1746-1780; Bibliography; Index to Novels, Bought and Borrowed; Index to Customers for Novels; General Index; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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It is well known that the English novel took shape in the eighteenth century, but no one knows who read novels like Humphry Clinker</i> and <i>Clarissa</i> when they were first published. Drawing on booksellers' archives and parish records, this book shows who in the Midlands actually bought novels, plays, and fiction magazines in the eighteenth century. - ;Many scholars have written about eighteenth-century English novels, but no one really knows who read them. This study provides historical data on the provincial reading publics for various forms of fiction - novels, plays, chapbooks, |
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