Authorship in the Long Eighteenth Century

Authorship in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Dustin Griffin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2013-12-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1611494710

This book deals with changing conditions and conceptions of authorship in the long eighteenth century, a period said to have witnessed the birth of the modern author. Challenging claims about the public sphere and the professional writer, it engages with recent work on print culture and the history of the book and takes up such under-treated topics as the forms of literary careers and the persistence of the Renaissance “republic of letters” into the “age of authors.”

Readers in a Revolution

Readers in a Revolution
Author: David McKitterick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2022-06-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1009200844

This book traces a revolution in values that transformed nineteenth-century attitudes to second-hand books, bibliography and collecting.

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800
Author: George Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1698
Release: 1971-07-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521079341

More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.