The Manufacturers of Literature: Writing and the Literary Marketplace in Eighteenth-century England

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University 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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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

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