Literary coteries and the making of modern print culture, 1740-1790 / / Betty A. Schellenberg.

• VerfasserIn: Schellenberg, Betty A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Open Access e-Books; Knowledge Unlatched
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 308 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Jul 2016).; Open Access title.

Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture offers the first study of manuscript-producing coteries as an integral element of eighteenth-century Britain's literary culture. As a corrective to literary histories assuming that the dominance of print meant the demise of a vital scriba...

Table of Contents

• Introduction: the literary coteries in the eighteenth-century media landscapes
• 1. Wrest Park and North End: two mid-century coteries
• 2. Formation, fame, and patronage: the Montagu-Lyttelton coterie
• 3. Identity and influence from coterie to print: Carter, Chapone, and the Shenstone-Dodsley collaboration
• 4. Memorializing a coterie life in print: the case of William Shenstone
• 5. "This new species of mischief": Montagu, Johnson, and the quarrel over character
• 6. Transmediations: marketing the coterie traveler
• 7. Literary sociability in the eighteenth-century personal miscellany.