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Book Title: The Appearance of Print in Eighteenth-Century Fiction Book Author: Christopher Flint (Author) Hardcover: 294 pages Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1ST edition (October 31, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1107008395 ISBN-13: 978-1107008397 Book Description Publication Date: October 31, 2011 Eighteenth-century fiction holds an unusual place in the history of modern print culture. The novel gained prominence largely because of advances in publishing, but, as a popular genre, it also helped shape those very developments. Authors in the period manipulated the appearance of the page and print technology more deliberately than has been supposed, prompting new forms of reception among readers. Christopher Flint's book explores works by both obscure 'scribblers' and canonical figures, such as Swift, Haywood, Defoe, Richardson, Sterne and Austen, that interrogated the complex interactions between the book's material aspects and its producers and consumers. Flint links historical shifts in how authors addressed their profession to how books were manufactured and how readers consumed texts. He argues that writers exploited typographic media to augment other crucial developments in prose fiction, from formal realism and free indirect discourse to accounts of how 'the novel' defined itself as a genre. Book Description II Flint explores how eighteenth-century writers, among them Swift, Haywood, Defoe, Richardson, Sterne and Austen, exploited typographic media to augment other crucial developments in prose fiction, from formal realism and free indirect discourse to accounts of how 'the novel' defined itself as a genre. About the Author Christopher Flint is Associate Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio. Sharing Widget |
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