Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture: 1740-1790

ISBN-13: 9781107571877 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 313 str.

Betty A. Schellenberg

Opis

The first examination of interconnected manuscript-exchanging coteries as an integral element of literary culture in eighteenth-century Britain. This title is also available as Open Access.

Recenzje

'Admirable in terms of scholarship, the book is based on extensive research in manuscript collections and in the periodicals and books of the 18th century …' J. T. Lynch, Choice

Spis treści

Introduction: the literary coterie in the eighteenth-century media landscape; 1. Wrest Park and North End: two mid-century coteries; 2. Formation, fame, and patronage: the Montagu–Lyttelton coterie; 3. Identity and influence from coterie to print: Carter, Chapone, and the Shenstone–Dodsley collaboration; 4. Memorializing a coterie life in print: the case of William Shenstone; 5. 'This new species of mischief': Montagu, Johnson, and the quarrel over character; 6. Transmediations: marketing the coterie traveller; 7. Literary sociability in the eighteenth-century personal miscellany; Conclusion; Bibliography.