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Printing History and Cultural Change - Fashioning the Modern English Text in Eighteenth-Century Britain

English · Hardback

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Explores printing conventions in the eighteenth century and the gradual tendency to abandon the use of capital letters, italics, and small capitals in English books, heralding the advent of a cleaner, and smoother, printed page. It studies a range of texts and the changing roles of authors, booksellers, printers, and the reading public.

List of contents










  • Part I. Abandoning the Capital

  • 1: The Great Divide

  • 2: Literary Texts and Collections

  • 3: Religious Texts

  • 4: Capitalizing the Colonies

  • Coda. From the Early Modern to the Modern English Page

  • Part II. Printing, Interpretation, and Cultural Change

  • 5: Printers, Readers, and Writers

  • 6: Printing and Interpretation

  • 7: Historical Correlatives

  • 8: Historical Explanations

  • Bibliography



About the author

Richard Wendorf has been Director of the American Museum & Gardens since 2010. Previously he was Professor of English and Art History at Northwestern University, Librarian of the Houghton Library and Senior Lecturer on the Fine Arts at Harvard University, and Stanford Calderwood Director and Librarian of the Boston Athenaeum.

Summary

Explores printing conventions in the eighteenth century and the gradual tendency to abandon the use of capital letters, italics, and small capitals in English books, heralding the advent of a cleaner, and smoother, printed page. It studies a range of texts and the changing roles of authors, booksellers, printers, and the reading public.

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