Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture,
1740-1790 /
Betty Schellenberg.

Description

Main Author

Schellenberg, Betty

Language(s)

English

Published

©2016.
London : Knowledge Unlatched, c2016.
Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, c2016.

Subjects

Literature.

Summary

Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture, 1740-1790 offers the first study of manuscript-producing coteries as an integral element of eighteenth-century Britain’s literary culture. As a corrective to literary histories assuming that the dominance of print meant the demise of a vital scribal culture, the book profiles four interrelated and influential coteries, focusing on each group’s deployment of traditional scribal practices, on key individuals who served as bridges between networks, and on the aesthetic and cultural work performed by the group. Literary Coteries also explores points of intersection between coteries and the print trade, whether in the form of individuals who straddled the two cultures; publishing events in which the two media regimes collaborated or came into conflict; literary conventions adapted from manuscript practice to serve the ends of print; or simply poetry hand-copied from magazines. Together, these instances demonstrate how scribal modes shaped modern literary production.
Betty Schellenberg offers new insights into the way literary coteries - and the private circulation of literary material that they encouraged - helped create a new form of literary culture in the eighteenth century. Among other things, she gives a much more equal role to men and women than more traditional studies allow.

Note

Also issued in print and PDF version.

Physical Description

1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations, figures, tables.

ISBN

9781107128163 (print-ISBN)

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