Provincial readers in eighteenth-century England / Jan Fergus.
The English novel took shape in the 18th century, but no one knows who read novels like 'Humphry Clinker' & 'Clarissa' when they were first published. Drawing on booksellers' archives & parish records, this book shows who in the Midlands actually bought novels, plays...
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Language: | English |
Published: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. |
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