The Manufacturers of Literature: Writing and the Literary Marketplace in Eighteenth-century EnglandUniversity of Delaware Press, 2002 - 281 páginas 'The Manufactures of Literature' explores the effect of the development of the publishing industry upon print culture generally, and literature specifically, during the eighteenth century. The book is structured around case studies of important writers and publishers, including Addison and Steele, Pope, Johnson, Robert Dodsley, and Frances Burney. |
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... Biography 71 3. Robert Dodsley's Collection of Poems by Several Hands , the " Modern Classic , " and Literary Value 112 4. The Excursion , Evelina , and Novel Culture 144 5. " Labour with Independence " : Frances Burney's Camilla and ...
... Biography 71 3. Robert Dodsley's Collection of Poems by Several Hands , the " Modern Classic , " and Literary Value 112 4. The Excursion , Evelina , and Novel Culture 144 5. " Labour with Independence " : Frances Burney's Camilla and ...
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... Biography of " The Idea of Literature " argues that a recognizable body of Literature has been present in the west from the Greeks onward . An aspiration towards autonomy , suggests Marino , has been present in Litera- ture from its ...
... Biography of " The Idea of Literature " argues that a recognizable body of Literature has been present in the west from the Greeks onward . An aspiration towards autonomy , suggests Marino , has been present in Litera- ture from its ...
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... biography . Certain writers and their personalities come to dominate the literary marketplace and become the focus of discussion in a public sphere . The life of writing is exalted in biography both for the light it sheds on or- dinary ...
... biography . Certain writers and their personalities come to dominate the literary marketplace and become the focus of discussion in a public sphere . The life of writing is exalted in biography both for the light it sheds on or- dinary ...
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... biographical facts of Burney's particular class and gender give her the ideal social position of the literary author , both out- side and inside the public sphere which had come to regulate— while yet remaining peripheral to — political ...
... biographical facts of Burney's particular class and gender give her the ideal social position of the literary author , both out- side and inside the public sphere which had come to regulate— while yet remaining peripheral to — political ...
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Contenido
9 | |
Sir Roger de Coverley as Agent of Change | 31 |
Robert Dodsleys Collection of Poems by Several Hands | 112 |
The Excursion Evelina and Novel Culture | 144 |
Frances Burneys Camilla | 195 |
Notes | 234 |
Bibliography | 260 |
Index | 277 |
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Addison and Steele advertisement aesthetic Alexander Pope argues becomes booksellers Brooke Brooke's Burney's Cambridge Camilla career century chapter character Cibber circulating libraries classic commodity consumers counter public sphere created critics D'Arblay Dodsley's Collection Dunciad economic edition eigh eighteenth eighteenth-century Britain eighteenth-century literary English Epistle to Arbuthnot erary essay Evelina Fanny Burney fiction Frances Brooke Frances Burney genius genre Grub Street Habermas Habermas's ideology John Joseph Addison Journals and Letters liter literary authorship literary biography literary culture literary marketplace literary value literary world Literature London Lord Orville manners material modern moral narrator notion novel novel culture novelistic Oxford poem poet poetry political Pope's popular print culture production provides public sphere published readers reading Review Richard Savage Robert Dodsley Roger de Coverley role Samuel Johnson satire Savage's Sir Roger social Spectator Spectator's status subscription taste Tatler tion tradition truth ture University Press volume women writing
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Página 13 - There has not been a law-suit in the parish since he has lived among them; if any dispute arises they apply themselves to him for the decision; if they do not acquiesce in his judgment, which I think never happened above once or twice at most, they appeal to me. At his first settling with me, I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly he has digested them into such...
Página 77 - Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own' As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame. I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came, I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobeyed.
Página 89 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too! (To live and die is all I have to do:) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please: Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend.
Página 14 - A sermon repeated after this manner is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor.
Página 85 - Pretty! in Amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Página 59 - But being ill-used by the above-mentioned widow, he was very serious for a year and a half; and though, his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse...
Página 84 - tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates in high heroic prose, And ridicules beyond a hundred foes: One from all Grub Street will my fame defend, And, more abusive, calls himself my friend. This prints my letters, that expects a bribe, And others roar aloud, 'Subscribe, subscribe!
Página 59 - He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.
Página 45 - This is the day on which many eminent authors will probably publish their last words. I am afraid that few of our weekly historians, who are men that above all others delight in war, will be able to subsist under the weight of a stamp, and an approaching peace...
Página 42 - It was said of Socrates that he brought philosophy down from heaven, to inhabit among men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses.
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