Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture : 1740-1790 / Betty A. Schellenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schellenberg, Betty A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language arts.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture, 1740-1790 offers the first study of manuscript-producing coteries as an integral element of eighteenth-century Britain's literary culture. As a corrective to literary histories assuming that the dominance of print meant the demise of a vital scribal culture, the book profiles four interrelated and influential coteries, focusing on each group's deployment of traditional scribal practices, on key individuals who served as bridges between networks, and on the aesthetic and cultural work performed by the group. Literary Coteries also explores points of intersection between coteries and the print trade, whether in the form of individuals who straddled the two cultures; publishing events in which the two media regimes collaborated or came into conflict; literary conventions adapted from manuscript practice to serve the ends of print; or simply poetry hand-copied from magazines. Together, these instances demonstrate how scribal modes shaped modern literary production.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Knowledge Unlatched Round 2

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 103458

ISBN:

9781107128163

OCLC:

972611409

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access