Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel
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'... a handsomely illustrated book, argued with panache.' Times Literary Supplement
'A welcome addition ... beautifully produced by Cambridge. Because of its ornamental and substantive merits it belongs in every personal and institutional library concerned with the eighteenth-century novel.' British Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies
'... Barchas's discussion of the interpretive role of these graphic features, particularly in relation to the novel's formal development, is nuanced and savvy; in recalling attention to the visual context and materiality of the early novel, it opens the way to a potentially rich new area of discussion.' Sharp News
Book Description
The uniformity of graphic design in contemporary paperback and critical editions of the eighteenth-century novel no longer conveys the visual appeal of early editions. Janine Barchas explains how the novel's material embodiment as printed book rivalled its narrative content in diversity and creativity in the first half of the eighteenth century. Prose writers such as Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Henry and Sarah Fielding experimented with the novel's physical appearance from the beginning of its emergence in Britain.
Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel,Janine Barchas,Cambridge University Press,0521819083,18th century,Book design,England,English fiction,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,History,History and criticism,Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature publishing,British Isles,Clarissa,David Simple,English,Fielding, Sarah,Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries,Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries,Richardson, Samuel
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