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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| Online Access: | Electronic book from Oxford Scholarship Online |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. |
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| Genre: | Electronic books. |
| Summary: | 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, & fiction magazines in the 18th century. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 314 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-296) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781429492805 1429492805 9780191538209 0191538205 9780191711244 0191711241 |
| Access: | Access limited to authorized users. |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |