TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schellenberg,Betty A.
TI  - Literary coteries and the making of modern print culture, 1740-1790
SN  - 9781316423202 (ebook)
AV  - PR441 .S35 2016
U1  - 820.9/006 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Transmission of texts
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Publishers and publishing
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Jul 2016); Open Access title; Open Access title
N2  - Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture 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. The book 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. This title is also available as Open Access
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316423202
ER  -