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Thematology --- English literature --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899

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This collection of essays is the result of a major conference focusing specifically on the role of Scotland's print culture in shaping the literature and politics of the long eighteenth century. In contrast to previous studies, this work treats Blackwood's Magazine as the culmination of a long tradition rather than a starting point.

English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- English literature --- Journalism --- Enlightenment --- Scottish authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Publicity --- Fake news --- Scotland --- Intellectual life

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Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), among the most important and influential English novelists, was also a prolific letter writer. Beyond its extraordinary range, his correspondence holds special interest as that of a practising epistolary novelist, who thought long and hard about the letter as a form. The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson is the first complete edition of his letters. The present volume contains his correspondences with Dr George Cheyne and Thomas Edwards, linked not only by their pronounced medical content but also by their generally unguarded character. An early admirer of Richardson's Pamela (1740-41), Cheyne elicits some of the novelist's most significant statements concerning his own literary practice and tastes. Edwards, an astute literary critic as well as notable sonneteer, draws Richardson into expressing some remarkable insights as a close reader of poetry and prose.

Richardson, Samuel, --- Cheyne, George, --- Edwards, Thomas, --- Novelists, English

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"Studies the book trade during the age of Fergusson and Burns. Over 40 leading scholars come together in this volume to scrutinise the development and impact of printing, binding, bookselling, libraries, textbooks, distribution and international trade, copyright, piracy, literacy, music publication, women readers, children's books and cookery books. The 18th century saw Scotland become a global leader in publishing, both through landmark challenges to the early copyright legislation and through the development of intricate overseas markets that extended across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Scots in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Dublin and Philadelphia amassed fortunes while bringing to international markets classics in medicine and economics by Scottish authors, as well as such enduring works of reference as the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Entrepreneurship and a vigorous sense of nationalism brought Scotland from financial destitution at the time of the 1707 Union to extraordinary wealth by the 1790s. Publishing was one of the country's elite new industries. Key Features: Discusses copyright and piracy with new data at a time when intellectual property laws are returning to 18th-century precedents; Provides new understandings of Scotland's early modern readerships, including women's libraries, music literacy, and the way in which Scots found in the growth of literacy an international marketplace for intellectual property; Original scholarship and previously unpublished source material on secular Gaelic print; 16 exclusive full colour images of rare Scottish bindings from private collections, 25 additional colour plates and 60 black and white illustrations."--

Book industries and trade --- Books --- Publishers and publishing --- Books and reading --- Appraisal of books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Book publishing --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- History. --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Publishing --- Books. --- Books and reading. --- Publishers and publishing.