The Appearance of Print in Eighteenth-Century Fiction.

Explains how new print technologies and the expansion of print culture allowed eighteenth-century writers to develop the novel form.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author:	Flint, Christopher.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Subjects:	English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism. Fiction > Publishing > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Publishers and publishing > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Printing > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Books > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Authors and publishers > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Authors and readers > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Fiction > Appreciation > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Books and reading > Great Britain > History > 18th century.

Table of Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: prose fiction and print culture in eighteenth-century Britain; PART ONE Author book reader; 1 Pre-scripts: the contexts of literary production; Books; Readers; Authors; 2 Post scripts: the fate of the page in Charles Gildon's epistolary fiction; Caveat scriptor; Caveat léctor; Caveat emptor; Tabula rasa; PART TWO Reader book author; 3 Dark matters: printer's ornaments and thesubstitution of text; Introduction; Swift's chasms; Richardson's flowers; Sterne's stars; Doing little good.
4 Inanimate fiction: circulating stories in object narrativesIf things could talk; The signs of things; Why objects speak; To coin a phrase; Circulating stories; 5 Only a female pen: women writers and fictions of the page; Introduction; Nobody to somebody; Provinces of the pen; Purchasing without publishing; "Two short but very clever novels"; A mouldering hand; Washing bills; The pen in their hands; Moving the desk closer; 6 After words; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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