Social authorship and the advent of print / Margaret J.M. Ezell.
Social authorship and the advent of print / Margaret J.M. Ezell.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N820.9004/10
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Language
English
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x, 182 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: The Changing Culture of Authorship and the History of the Book -- 1. The Social Author: Manuscript Culture, Writers, and Readers -- 2. Literary Pirates and Reluctant Authors: Some Peculiar Institutions of Authorship -- 3. The Very Early Career of Alexander Pope -- 4. Getting into Print...
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Place of Publication
Maryland
Date Published
1999.
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Summary
"In this study of the development of literary industry and authorship in early modern Britain, Margaret Ezell examines the forces at work at a time when print technology was in competition with older manuscript authorship practices and the legal status of authors was being transformed. She also explores the literary concepts that subsequently devel...
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Social authorship and the advent of print / Margaret J.M. Ezell.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-171) and index.
State Reference Library copy has ISBN 0801877377 on p. 4 of cover.
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N820.9004/10
Record Identifier
74Vv5r4K4OgM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv5r4K4OgM
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ISBN
0801877377
080186139X (alk. paper)
080186139X :
9780801877377
DDC
820.9004
MMS ID
991017741019702626
