Literary coteries and the making of modern print culture : 1740-1790 /

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 v...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schellenberg, Betty A. (Author)
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Wrest Park and North End: two mid-century coteries
  • Formation, fame, and patronage: the Montagu-Lyttelton coterie
  • Identity and influence from coterie to print: Carter, Chapone, and the Shenstone-Dodsley collaboration
  • Memorializing a coterie life in print: the case of William Shenstone
  • "This new species of mischief": Montagu, Johnson, and the quarrel over character
  • Transmediations: marketing the coterie traveler
  • Literary sociability in the eighteenth-century personal miscellany.