Part I. Author, Book, Reader: 1. Preface: prose fiction and print culture in eighteenth-century Britain; 2. Pre-scripts: the contexts of literary production; 3. Post scripts: the fate of the page in Charles Gildon's epistolary fiction; Part II. Reader, Book, Author: 4. In other words: printers' ornaments and the substitutions of text; 5. Inanimate fiction: circulating stories in object narratives; 6. Only a female pen: women writers and fictions of the page; 7. After words; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Explains how new print technologies and the expansion of print culture allowed eighteenth-century writers to develop the novel form.
Christopher Flint is Associate Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio.
'The Appearance of Print in Eighteenth Century Fiction … offers a rich account of Richardson's typographical practices, linking these to Sterne and Mackenzie: this situation of Richardson within such a tradition is one aspect of the study, but a welcome one.' The Eighteenth Century
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