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The appearance of print in eighteenth-century fiction /
"Eighteenth-century fiction holds an unusual place in the history of modern print culture. The novel gained prominence largely because of advances in publishing, but, as a popular genre, it also helped shape those very developments. Authors in the period manipulated the appearance of the page a...
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Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Online Access: | http://books.google.co.in/books?id=Z9za8LjTq6wC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+appearance+of+print+in+eighteenth+century+fiction&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gd5yVMfhPJKiugSc-oGQCw&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=The%20appearance%20of%20print%20in%20eighteenth%20century%20fiction&f=false |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: prose fiction and print culture in eighteenth-century Britain
- Part I. Author, Book, Reader. 1. Pre-scripts: the contexts of literary production
- 2. Post scripts: the fate of the page in Charles Gildon's epistolary fiction
- Part II. Reader, Book, Author. 3. Dark matters: printers' ornaments and the substitutions of text
- 4. Inanimate fiction: circulating stories in object narratives
- 5. Only a female pen: women writers and fictions of the page
- 6. After words
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.