Representations of Book Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Imaginative Writing

ISBN-13: 9783319926087 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str.

Joanna Maciulewicz

Opis

This book is a contribution to the new field of literary studies which is informed by book history and takes interest in the intersection of the ideal and material aspects of literature.

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Spis treści

1. Introduction.- 2. From Orality to Script: Literacy, Autonomy and Authority in Clarissa.- 3. Script, Print and the Materiality of Texts.- 4. The Stories of Reading in the Eighteenth-Century Novels.- 5. The Authors' Search for Creative Autonomy.- 6. Midwives of the Muses: Representations of the Transformation of Literary Patronage.- 7. Conclusion.-Index

O autorze

Joanna Maciulewicz is Assistant Professor at the Department of English Literature, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.