Producing the eighteenth-century book : writers and publishers in England, 1650-1800

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  • edited by Laura L. Runge and Pat Rogers.
  • Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2009.
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    Z8.G72 E57 2009
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    • Foreword p. 7 J. Paul Hunter
    • Acknowledgments p. 9
    • Introduction p. 13 Laura L. Runge
    • The Second Coming of the Book, 1740-1770 p. 30 Betty A. Schellenberg
    • Invisible Books p. 53 Margaret J. M. Ezell
    • Uncovering the Traces Left Behind: Manuscript Recipes, Middleclass Readers, and Reading Practices p. 70 Phyllis Thompson
    • The Case and the Exceptions: Creating Instrumental Texts in Law and Literature p. 95 Simon Stern
    • The Book that Wrote an Animal p. 117 Richard Nash
    • Intersections in Book History, Bibliography, and Literacy Interpretation: Three Episodes in the Publication History of Frances Burney's Cecilia p. 135 Catherine M. Parisian
    • The Warwick Lane Network and the Refashioning of "Atalantis" as a Titular Keyword: Print and Politics in the Age of Queen Anne p. 163 Eleanor F. Shevlin
    • Pope's Phantom Moore: Plagiarism and the Pseudonymous Imprint p. 193 Evan R. Davis
    • Edmund Curll and the Publishing Trade p. 215 Pat Rogers
    • The Technology and Future of the Book: What a Digital "Grub Street" Can Tell Us about Communications, Commerce, and Creativity p. 235 Allison Muri
    • This World of Words: Lucretian Atomism and the Shaping of the Book p. 251 Roger D. Lund
    • Writing on Writing: Representations of the Book in Eighteenth-Century Literature p. 274 Barbara M. Benedict
    • Notes on Contributors p. 291
    • Index p. 293
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    Description:
    298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
    Published:
    Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2009.
    Language:
    English
    Notes:
    "The idea for this book and most of the essays originated in the twentieth DeBartolo Conference on Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of South Florida"--Acknowledgments.
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    ISBN:
    9780874130690
    0874130697
    OCLC Number:
    314837938
    Other Identifiers:
    LCCN: 2009008384

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