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Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England : Volume 2 New Essays.
Title:
Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England : Volume 2 New Essays.
Author:
Rivers, Isabel.
ISBN:
9781847144003
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (305 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- 1 The Book Trades -- 2 The English Bible and its Readers in the Eighteenth Century -- 3 Theological Books from The Naked Gospel to Nemesis of Faith -- 4 The History Market in Eighteenth-Century England -- 5 Biographical Dictionaries and their Uses from Bayle to Chalmers -- 6 Review Journals and the Reading Public -- 7 Literary Scholarship and the Life of Editing -- 8 The Production and Consumption of the Eighteenth-Century Poetic Miscellany -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
This collection of eight new essays investigates ways in which significant kinds of 18th-century writings were designed and received by different audiences. Rivers explores the answers to certain crucial questions about the contemporary use of books. This new edition contains the results of important new research by well known specialists in the field of book and publishing history over the last two decades.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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