Novel ventures : fiction and print culture in England, 1690-1730 / Leah Orr.

Author/creator Orr, Leah author.
Format Book
PublicationCharlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
Copyright Date©2017
Descriptionviii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Part One. Fiction in the pring culture world. Defining the "novel" : eighteenth-century concepts of fiction -- Fiction and the book trade -- Authors and anonymous publication -- Part Two. Fiction in England, 1690-1730. Reprints of earlier English fiction -- Foreign fiction in English translation -- Fiction with purpose -- Fiction for entertainment -- Conclusion : did the novel rise? -- Appendix. Fiction not in McBurney's Check list.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 273-321) and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2017010441
ISBN9780813940137 hardcover acid-free paper
ISBN0813940133 hardcover acid-free paper
ISBNelectronic book

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Joyner General Stacks PR851 .O77 2017 ✔ Available Place Hold