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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815194703321

Autore

Rivers Isabel

Titolo

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England, 2 [[electronic resource] ] : New Essays

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2003

ISBN

1-281-29885-9

9786611298852

1-84714-400-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

028.094209033

028/.0942/09033

820.9005 028/.0942/09033 028.9094209033

Soggetti

English literature

English literature - History and criticism - 18th century - England

Book industries and trade - History - 18th century - England

Books and reading - History - 18th century - England

Popular culture - History - 18th century

English

General

Languages & Literatures

English Literature

Bibliography - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; 1 The Book Trades; 2 The English Bible and its Readers in the Eighteenth Century; 3 Theological Books from The Naked Gospel to Nemesis of Faith; 4 The History Market in Eighteenth-Century England; 5 Biographical Dictionaries and their Uses from Bayle to Chalmers; 6 Review Journals and the Reading Public; 7 Literary Scholarship and the Life of Editing; 8 The Production and Consumption of the Eighteenth-Century Poetic Miscellany; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX



Sommario/riassunto

This collection of eight new essays investigates ways in which significant kinds of 18th-century writings were designed and received by different audiences. Rivers explores the answers to certain crucial questions about the contemporary use of books. This new edition contains the results of important new research by well known specialists in the field of book and publishing history over the last two decades.