A Check List Of Prose Fiction Published In England 1740 1749
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Author | : Peggy Keeran |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2013-02-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0810887967 |
The 18th century in Britain was a transition period for literature. Patronage, either by a benefactor or through subscription, lingered even as the publishing and bookselling industries developed. The practice of reviewing books became well established during the second half of the century, with the first periodical founded in 1749. For the literary scholar, these gradual changes mean that different search strategies are required to conduct research into primary and secondary source material across the era. Literary Research and the British Eighteenth Century addresses these unique challenges. It examines how the following all contribute to the richness of literary research for this era: book and periodical publishing; a growing literate society; dissemination of literature through salons, private societies, and coffee houses; the growing importance of book reviews; the explosion of publishing; and the burgeoning of primary source material available through new publishing and digital initiatives in the 21st century. This volume explores primary and secondary resources, including general literary research guides; union library catalogs; print and online bibliographies; scholarly journals; manuscripts and archives; 18th-century books, newspapers, and periodicals; contemporary reception; and electronic texts and journals, as well as Web resources. Each chapter addresses the research methods and tools best used to extract relevant information and compares and evaluates sources, making this book an invaluable guide to any literary scholar and student of the British eighteenth century.
Author | : Christopher D. Johnson |
Publisher | : University of Delaware |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2011-04-18 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1611490413 |
New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction is a collection of thirteen essays honoring Professor Jerry C. Beasley, who retired from the University of Delaware in 2005. The essays, written by friends, collaborators and former students, reflect the scholarly interests that defined Professor Beasley's career and point to new directions of critical inquiry. The initial essays, which discuss Tobias Smollett, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, and Samuel Richardson, suggest new directions in biographical writing, including the intriguing discourse of 'life writing' explored by Paula Backscheider. Subsequent essays enrich understandings of eighteenth-century fiction by examining lesser-known works by Jane Barker, Eliza Haywood, and Charlotte Lennox. Many of the essays, especially those that focus on Smollett, use political pamphlets, material artifacts, and urban legends to place familiar novels in new contexts. The collection's final essay demonstrates the vital importance of bibliographic study.
Author | : Michael J. Marcuse |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 2816 |
Release | : 2023-11-10 |
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ISBN | : 0520321871 |
Author | : Henry George Hahn |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780810817869 |
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Author | : J. A. Downie |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 625 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199566747 |
The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth Century Novel is the first published book to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. It is an indispensible resource for those with an interest in the history of the novel.
Author | : David C. Greetham |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2015-10-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1136755799 |
First published in 1994. This fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling Textual Scholarship covers all aspects of textual theory and scholarly editing for students and scholars. As the definitive introduction to the skills of textual scholarship, the new edition addresses the revolutionary shift from print to digital textuality and subsequent dramatic changes in the emphasis and direction of textual enquiry.
Author | : James L. Harner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 852 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
James L. Harner's Literary Research Guide, which Choice calls "the standard guide in the field," evaluates important reference materials in English studies. Since the publication of the first edition in 1989, tens of thousands of students and educators have used the Guide as an aid to scholarly research. In the new edition Harner has added entries describing resources published since May 2001 and has revised nearly half the entries from the fourth edition. The fifth edition contains more than 1,000 entries, which discuss an additional 1,555 books, articles, and electronic resources and cite 723 reviews. Readers of earlier editions will notice the inclusion of substantially more electronic resources, particularly reliable sites sponsored by academic institutions and learned societies, to account for the proliferation of bibliographic databases, text archives, and other online resources. This edition also features a new section on cultural studies.
Author | : Jan Fergus |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2007-01-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191538205 |
Many scholars have written about eighteenth-century English novels, but no one really knows who read them. This study provides historical data on the provincial reading publics for various forms of fiction - novels, plays, chapbooks, children's books, and magazines. Archival records of Midland booksellers based in five market towns and selling printed matter to over thirty-three hundred customers between 1744 and 1807 form the basis for new information about who actually bought and borrowed different kinds of fiction in eighteenth-century provincial England. This book thus offers the first solid demographic information about actual readership in eighteenth-century provincial England, not only about the class, profession, age, and sex of readers but also about the market of available fiction from which they made their choices - and some speculation about why they made the choices they did. Contrary to received ideas, men in the provinces were the principal customers for eighteenth-century novels, including those written by women. Provincial customers preferred to buy rather than borrow fiction, and women preferred plays and novels written by women - women's works would have done better had women been the principal consumers. That is, demand for fiction (written by both men and women) was about equal for the first five years, but afterward the demand for women's works declined. Both men and women preferred novels with identifiable authors to anonymous ones, however, and both boys and men were able to cross gender lines in their reading. Goody Two-Shoes was one of the more popular children's books among Rugby schoolboys, and men read the Lady's Magazine. These and other findings will alter the way scholars look at the fiction of the period, the questions asked, and the histories told of it.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Publishers and publishing |
ISBN | : |
A journal for authors and publishers.
Author | : James Raven |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The first comprehensive catalogue of prose fiction published in Britain and Ireland between 1750 and 1770, continuing the already published lists for 1700 to 1749. It is fully indexed and contains an introduction summarizing changes in publication, bookselling, and authorship as derived from the new listings.