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Novel Ventures : fiction and print culture in England, 1690-1730 / Leah Orr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Orr, Leah, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Book industries and trade--England--History--18th century.
- Book industries and trade.
- Literature and society--England--History--18th century.
- Literature and society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (pages cm)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville, [Virginia] ; London, [England] : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Ultimately, Novel Ventures concludes that publishers had far more influence over what was written, printed, and read than authors did, and that they shaped the development of English fiction at a crucial moment in its literary history.
- Contents:
- Defining the "novel": eighteenth-century concepts of fiction
- Fiction and the book trade
- Authors and anonymous publication
- Reprints of earlier English fiction
- Foreign fiction in English translation
- Fiction with purpose
- Fiction for entertainment
- Conclusion: did the novel rise?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813940144
- 0813940141
- OCLC:
- 1004378126
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