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Books and their readers in eighteenth-century England : new essays / edited by Isabel Rivers.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Book industries and trade--England--History--18th century.
- Book industries and trade.
- Books and reading--England--History--18th century.
- Books and reading.
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Popular culture--England.
- Popular culture.
- England--Intellectual life--18th century.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Books and their readers in 18th century England
- Place of Publication:
- London : Continuum, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611298852
- 9781281298850
- 1281298859
- 9781847144003
- 1847144004
- OCLC:
- 290598374
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