Producing the Eighteenth-Century Book : Writers and Publishers in England, 1650-1800

by Runge, Laura L.; Rogers, Pat

• ISBN13: 9780874130690
• ISBN10: 0874130697
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-31
• Publisher: Associated Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
Acknowledgments	p. 9
Introduction	p. 13
The Second Coming of the Book, 1740-1770	p. 30
Invisible Books	p. 53
Uncovering the Traces Left Behind: Manuscript Recipes, Middleclass Readers, and Reading Practices	p. 70
The Case and the Exceptions: Creating Instrumental Texts in Law and Literature	p. 95
The Book that Wrote an Animal	p. 117
Intersections in Book History, Bibliography, and Literacy Interpretation: Three Episodes in the Publication History of Frances Burney's Cecilia	p. 135
The Warwick Lane Network and the Refashioning of "Atalantis" as a Titular Keyword: Print and Politics in the Age of Queen Anne	p. 163
Pope's Phantom Moore: Plagiarism and the Pseudonymous Imprint	p. 193
Edmund Curll and the Publishing Trade	p. 215
The Technology and Future of the Book: What a Digital "Grub Street" Can Tell Us about Communications, Commerce, and Creativity	p. 235
This World of Words: Lucretian Atomism and the Shaping of the Book	p. 251
Writing on Writing: Representations of the Book in Eighteenth-Century Literature	p. 274
Notes on Contributors	p. 291
Index	p. 293
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