Periodicals, fiction and the novel, 1700-1760 : ecologies of print / Jennifer Buckley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buckley, Jennifer, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English essays--18th century--History and criticism.

English essays.

Books and reading--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Books and reading.

Physical Description:

ix, 222 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]

Biography/History:

Jennifer Buckley is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of English, Media and Creative Arts at the University of Galway. She currently works on the European Research Council project 'Theatronomics: The Business of Theatre, 1732-1809.' She is the co-editor, with Montana Davies-Shuck, of Character and Caricature, 1660-1820 (2024).

Summary:

"The essay-periodical and the novel both emerged as new literary genres in the eighteenth century. Yet there has been no full-length study of the formative role each genre played in the development of the other. This book uses the lens of periodical studies to reassess what we know about the history of prose fiction, examining how periodicals shaped fictionality and how they were influenced by it in return. It moves the dial on studies of the English novel, arguing that the vibrant interchange between these genres revolutionised the printed world. Over five chapters that contextualise key authors within London's cutthroat print marketplace, the book studies the idea of 'print ecologies' to explain the mutual dependence of the periodical and prose fiction, disrupting the often-held assumption that the novel emerges from this period sui generis."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Ecologies of fiction

Cultivating a genre : tatlers, spectators and spies

Daniel Defoe : conversations with the Eidolon

Eliza Haywood : mediation and inductive reading

Henry Fielding : curating taste

Samuel Johnson : the anxieties of a periodical writer

Charlotte Lennox : museums of fiction - Coda. Magazines and miscellanies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-213) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Buckley, Jennifer. Periodicals, fiction and the novel, 1700-1760.

ISBN:

9781399527453

1399527452

OCLC:

1446795463

Publisher Number:

CIPO000185151