Appearance of Print in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Informationen zum Autor Christopher Flint is Associate Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio. Klappentext Explains how new print technologies and the expansion of print culture allowed eighteenth-century writers to develop the novel form. Zusammenfassung Flint explores how eighteenth-century writers! among them Swift! Haywood! Defoe! Richardson! Sterne and Austen! 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Flint, Christopher (Case Western Reserve Universit Flint, Flint Christopher
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.09.2011
• EAN: 9781107008397
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00839-7
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Publishing industry & book trade