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Author:

Orr, Leah, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

viii, 336 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
Book industries and trade--England--History--18th century.
Literature and society--England--History--18th century.
Book industries and trade.
English fiction.
Literature and society.
England.
1700-1799
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Defining the "novel": eighteenth-century concepts of fiction -- Fiction and the book trade -- Authors and anonymous publication -- Reprints of earlier English fiction -- Foreign fiction in English translation -- Fiction with purpose -- Fiction for entertainment -- Conclusion: did the novel rise?.

ISBN:

0813940133
9780813940137

OCLC:

(OCoLC)988169511

LCCN:

2017010441

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)