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Informationen zum Autor Betty A. Schellenberg is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, where she is a founding member of the Print Culture group and winner of a Dean's Medal for Excellence. She has edited, for The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, the volume Correspondence Primarily on Sir Charles Grandison (1750–1754), which appeared in 2014. Her other books are The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge, 2005), Reconsidering the Bluestockings (2003, co-edited with Nicole Pohl), Part Two: Reflections on the Sequel (1996, co-edited with Paul Budra) and The Conversational Circle: Rereading the English Novel, 1740–1775 (1998). Klappentext The first examination of interconnected manuscript-exchanging coteries as an integral element of literary culture in eighteenth-century Britain. This title is also available as Open Access. Zusammenfassung Betty A. Schellenberg offers new insights into the integral and influential role played by interconnected manuscript-exchanging coteries - and the private circulation of literary material that they encouraged - in creating a new form of literary culture in eighteenth-century Britain. This title is also available as Open Access. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the literary coterie in the eighteenth-century media landscape; 1. Wrest Park and North End: two mid-century coteries; 2. Formation, fame, and patronage: the Montagu-Lyttelton coterie; 3. Identity and influence from coterie to print: Carter, Chapone, and the Shenstone-Dodsley collaboration; 4. Memorializing a coterie life in print: the case of William Shenstone; 5. 'This new species of mischief': Montagu, Johnson, and the quarrel over character; 6. Transmediations: marketing the coterie traveller; 7. Literary sociability in the eighteenth-century personal miscellany; Conclusion; Bibliography.
