Networks of reception in the eighteenth-century British press and Laurence Sterne /
"Criticism and creativity characterised literary reception in eighteenth-century Britain. The press - periodicals, newspapers, and magazines - harboured the reviewing cultures belonging to the emerging professionalisation of literary criticism. It also provided highly fertile ground for creativ...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
2025.
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| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in eighteenth-century connections.
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| Summary: | "Criticism and creativity characterised literary reception in eighteenth-century Britain. The press - periodicals, newspapers, and magazines - harboured the reviewing cultures belonging to the emerging professionalisation of literary criticism. It also provided highly fertile ground for creativity, including imitative items inspired by new publications, while critical reviews often incorporated parody. The press fostered experimentation among often anonymous reader-contributors, even while it facilitated the establishment of 'classic' works by recirculating well-known authors' names. Laurence Sterne's reception was energetically shaped by the interaction between critical and creative responses: the press played a major role in forging his status as an 'inimitable' author of note"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 73 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781009663199 1009238493 9781009238496 1009663194 |
| ISSN: | 2632-5578 |