The Most Disreputable Trade

The Most Disreputable Trade

Author: Thomas F. Bonnell

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008-04-17

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0199532206

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This fascinating book probes the origins of mass-market series of literary 'classics'. Highly informative about the book trade in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Bonnell's study is also rich in details about book illustration, copyright law, canon formation, consumer culture, and the history of reading.


Tobias Smollett

Tobias Smollett

Author: Lionel Kelly

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 1134782845

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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the work themselves.


The Origins of the Individualist Self

The Origins of the Individualist Self

Author: Michael Mascuch

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-06-28

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 0745667732

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This book traces the emergence of the concept of self-identity in modern Western culture, as it was both reflected in and advanced by the development of autobiographical practice in early modern England. It offers a fresh and illuminating appraisal of the nature of autobiographical narrative in general and of the early modern forms of biography, diary and autobiography in particular. The result is a significant and original contribution to the history of individualism. Michael Mascuch argues that the definitive characteristic of individualist self-identity is the personal capacity to produce a unified retrospective autobiographical narrative, and he stresses that this capacity was first demonstrated in England during the last decade of the eighteenth century. He examines the long-term process of innovation in written discourse leading up to this event, from the first use of blank almanacs and common place books by the pious in the late sixteenth century, through the popular criminal biographies of the late seventeenth century, to the printed-for-the-author scandalous memoirs of the mid-eighteenth century. While offering a detailed account of a significant period in the rise of a modern literary genre, Origins of the Individualist Self also addresses topics which are central in the fields of literary and cultural theory and social and cultural history.