Writing in public : literature and the liberty of the press in eighteenth-century Britain / Trevor R...
Writing in public : literature and the liberty of the press in eighteenth-century Britain / Trevor R...
Writing in public : literature and the liberty of the press in eighteenth-century Britain / Trevor Ross.
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Publisher
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2018]
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G 2019/0188
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Language
English
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Physical content
301 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Publication information
Publisher
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2018]
Place of Publication
Maryland
Date Published
[2018]
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Summary
Building upon his previous work on the emergence of "literature," Trevor Ross offers a history of how the public function of literature changed as a result of developing press freedoms during the period from 1760 to 1810. Writing in Public examines the laws of copyright, defamation, and seditious libel to show what happened to literary writing once...
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Writing in public : literature and the liberty of the press in eighteenth-century Britain / Trevor Ross.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-287) and index.
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G 2019/0188
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74VKV0z6kMZM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV0z6kMZM
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ISBN
1421426315 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781421426310 (hardcover : alk. paper)
DDC
820.9005
MMS ID
991024225019202626
