Pope and the Early Eighteenth-century Book Trade
Author: David Fairweather Foxon
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13:
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The Written Poem
Author: Rosemary Huisman
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780304339990
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text discusses the visual and graphic conventions in contemporary poetry in English. It defines contemporary poetry and its historical construction as a 'seen object' and uses literary and social theory of the 1990s to facilitate the study. In examining how a poem is recognized, the interpretive conventions for reading it, and how the spacial arrangement on the page is meaningful for contemporary poetry, the text takes examples from individual poems. There is also a focus on changes in manuscript conventions from Old to Middle English poetry and the change from a social to a personal understanding of poetic meaning from the late 18th through the 19th century.
Pope and the Early Eighteenth-century Book Trade
Author: David Fairweather Foxon
Publisher: Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished here for the first time, David Foxon's 1975 and 1976 Lyell Lectures make a significant contribution to the study of the book trade in the first half of the century, including Alexander Pope's involvement in it. Lavishly illustrated with reproductions from Pope's published works as well as his manuscripts, the book illuminates the ways in which compositorial practices affected the transmission of the texts. McLaverty includes examples of Pope's proofs, corrected in his own hand; title pages and decorations used in his editions; plates, decorated initials, and frontpieces.
Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England
Author: Catherine Ingrassia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-11-05
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780521630634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contemporaneous development of speculative investment and the novel in the early eighteenth century, and women's role in both.
English Versions of Roman Satire in the Earlier Eighteenth Century
Author: William Kupersmith
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780874139600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses Imitations of the ancient Roman verse satirists Horace, Juvenal, and Perseus published in Britain in the first half of the eighteenth century. It endeavors to put major writers such as Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson in the context of lesser writers of the period. It also devotes attention to other canonical writers such as Jonathan Swift, Henry Fielding, and Christopher Smart.
Reading Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century England
Author: Nicola Parsons
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-12-11
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 0230244769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyzes the relation between print cultures and eighteenth-century literary and political practices and, identifying Queen Anne's England as a crucial moment in the public life of gossip, offers readings of key texts that demonstrate how gossip's interpretative strategies shaped readers' participation in the literary and public spheres.
English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789
Author: David Fairer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-10-13
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 1317892879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years the canon of eighteenth-century poetry has greatly expanded to include women poets, labouring-class and provincial poets, and many previously unheard voices. Fairer’s book takes up the challenge this ought to pose to our traditional understanding of the subject. This book seeks to question some of the structures, categories, and labels that have given the age its reassuring shape in literary history. In doing so Fairer offers a fresh and detailed look at a wide range of material.
Print, Visuality, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Satire
Author: Katherine Mannheimer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-05-23
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1136728562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study interprets eighteenth-century satire’s famous typographical obsession as a fraught response to the Enlightenment’s "ocularcentric" epistemological paradigms, as well as to a print-cultural moment identified by book-historians as increasingly "visual" — a moment at which widespread attention was being paid, for the first time, to format, layout, and eye-catching advertising strategies. On the one hand, the Augustans were convinced of the ability of their elaborately printed texts to function as a kind of optical machinery rivaling that of the New Science, enhancing readers’ physical but also moral vision. On the other hand, they feared that an overly scrutinizing gaze might undermine the viewer’s natural faculty for candor and sympathy, delight and desire. In readings of Pope, Swift, and Montagu, Mannheimer shows how this distrust of the empirical gaze led to a reconsideration of the ethics, and most specifically the gender politics, of ocularcentrism. Whereas Montagu effected this reconsideration by directly satirizing both the era’s faith in the visual and its attendant publishing strategies, Pope and Swift pursued their critique via print itself: thus whether via facing-page translations, fictional editors, or disingenuous footnotes, these writers sought to ensure that typography never became either a mere tool of (or target for) the objectifying gaze, but rather that it remained a dynamic and interactive medium by which readers could learn both to see and to see themselves seeing.
Authoring the Self
Author: Scott Hess
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1135875162
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing upon historicist and cultural studies approaches to literature, this book argues that the Romantic construction of the self emerged out of the growth of commercial print culture and the expansion and fragmentation of the reading public beginning in eighteenth-century Britain. Arguing for continuity between eighteenth-century literature and the rise of Romanticism, this groundbreaking book traces the influence of new print market conditions on the development of the Romantic poetic self.
The Poet and the Publisher
Author: Pat Rogers
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2021-06-10
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 1789144191
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Drawing on deep familiarity with the period and its personalities, Rogers has given us a witty and richly detailed account of the ongoing war between the greatest poet of the eighteenth century and its most scandalous publisher.”—Leo Damrosch, author of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age “What sets Rogers’s history apart is his ability to combine fastidious research with lucid, unpretentious prose. History buffs and literary-minded readers alike are in for a punchy, drama-filled treat.”—Publishers Weekly The quarrel between the poet Alexander Pope and the publisher Edmund Curll has long been a notorious episode in the history of the book, when two remarkable figures with a gift for comedy and an immoderate dislike of each other clashed publicly and without restraint. However, it has never, until now, been chronicled in full. Ripe with the sights and smells of Hanoverian London, The Poet and Publisher details their vitriolic exchanges, drawing on previously unearthed pamphlets, newspaper articles, and advertisements, court and government records, and personal letters. The story of their battles in and out of print includes a poisoning, the pillory, numerous instances of fraud, and a landmark case in the history of copyright. The book is a forensic account of events both momentous and farcical, and it is indecently entertaining.
