
The Appearance of Print in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Christopher Flint(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 8. September 2011
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-1-107-00839-7 (ISBN)
Description
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 and print technology more deliberately than has been supposed, prompting new forms of reception among readers. Christopher Flint's book explores works by both obscure 'scribblers' and canonical figures, such as Swift, Haywood, Defoe, Richardson, Sterne and Austen, that interrogated the complex interactions between the book's material aspects and its producers and consumers. Flint links historical shifts in how authors addressed their profession to how books were manufactured and how readers consumed texts. He argues that writers exploited typographic media to augment other crucial developments in prose fiction, from formal realism and free indirect discourse to accounts of how 'the novel' defined itself as a genre.
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'The Appearance of Print in Eighteenth Century Fiction ... offers a rich account of Richardson's typographical practices, linking these to Sterne and Mackenzie: this situation of Richardson within such a tradition is one aspect of the study, but a welcome one.' The Eighteenth CenturyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
30 Halftones, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
582 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-00839-7 (9781107008397)
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Person
Christopher Flint is Associate Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio.
Content
Part I. Author, Book, Reader: 1. Preface: prose fiction and print culture in eighteenth-century Britain; 2. Pre-scripts: the contexts of literary production; 3. Post scripts: the fate of the page in Charles Gildon's epistolary fiction; Part II. Reader, Book, Author: 4. In other words: printers' ornaments and the substitutions of text; 5. Inanimate fiction: circulating stories in object narratives; 6. Only a female pen: women writers and fictions of the page; 7. After words; Notes; Bibliography; Index.