Authorship in the long eighteenth century / Dustin Griffin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffin, Dustin H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authorship--History--18th century.

Authorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages)

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2014]

Summary:

This book deals with changing conditions and conceptions of authorship in the long eighteenth century, a period often said to have witnessed the birth of the modern author. It focuses not on authorial self-presentation or self-revelation but on an author's interactions with booksellers, collaborators, rivals, correspondents, patrons, and audiences. Challenging older accounts of the development of authorship in the period as well as newer claims about the "public sphere" and the "professional writer," it engages with recent work on print culture and the history of the book.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Milton in Italy

The Beginnings of Modern Authorship

Dryden's "Oldham" and the Perils of Authorship

Literary Collaboration

The Social World of Authorship

Eighteenth-Century Literary Careers

"The Republic of Letters" in Eighteenth-Century England

Authors by Profession

Gray's Audiences

The Rise of the Professional Author?

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-64453-062-7

OCLC:

868964328