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When Novels Were Books

By: Jordan Alexander Stein

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A literary scholar explains how eighteenth-century novels were manufactured, sold, bought, owned, collected, and read alongside Protestant religious texts. As the novel developed into a mature genre, it had to distinguish itself from these similar-looking books and become what we now call “literature.” Literary scholars have explained the rise of the Anglophone novel using a range of tools, from Ian Watt’s theories to James Watt’s inventions. Contrary to established narratives, When Novels Were Books reveals that the genre beloved of so many readers today was not born secular, national, middle-class, or female. For the first three centuries of their history, novels came into readers’ hands primarily as printed sheets ordered into a codex bound along one edge between boards or paper wrappers. Consequently, they shared some formal features of other codices, such as almanacs and Protestant religious books produced by the same printers. Novels are often mistakenly credited for developing a formal feature (“character”) that was in fact incubated in religious books. The novel did not emerge all at once: it had to differentiate itself from the goods with which it was in competition. Though it was written for sequential reading, the early novel’s main technology for dissemination was the codex, a platform designed for random access. This peculiar circumstance led to the genre’s insistence on continuous, cover-to-cover reading even as the “media platform” it used encouraged readers to dip in and out at will and read discontinuously. Jordan Alexander Stein traces this tangled history, showing how the physical format of the book shaped the stories that were fit to print.

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Harvard University Press

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0674243420

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9780674243422

Index of English Literary Manuscripts

Volume 3, Part 4, Sterne-Young

By: Alexander Lindsay

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Index of English Literary Manuscripts

Volume 3, Part 4, Sterne-Young

By: Alexander Lindsay

This volume, the third in the series, discusses the works of 11 British 18th-century writers, providing information on the nature of the MS, date, variant title(s), state of completion, provenance and location, date and first form of publication, any scholarly use of the MS, and the existence of any published facsimiles. Information is drawn from material in libraries, record offices and private collections throughout the world. The listing of each author's manuscripts is preceded by an introduction. The book records many hitherto unrecorded manuscripts. The writers considered are: Laurence Sterne, Jonathan Swift, James Thomson, Hester Lynch Thrale, Horace Walpole, Joseph Warton, Thomas Warton the Younger, Isaac Watts, Anne Finch, Mary Wollstonecraft and Edward Young.

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A&C Black

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184714215X

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9781847142153

The Celtic Magazine. A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interest of the Celt at Home and Abroad

Vol. IX

By: Alexander Mackenzie,Alexander Macgregor,Alexander Macbain

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The Celtic Magazine. A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interest of the Celt at Home and Abroad

Vol. IX

By: Alexander Mackenzie,Alexander Macgregor,Alexander Macbain

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385386519

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9783385386518

The Undying Soul And Other Writings of Alexander Wilder

By: Alexander Wilder

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The Undying Soul And Other Writings of Alexander Wilder

By: Alexander Wilder

Thirty-eight articles by Alexander Wilder (1823-1908), Introduction, Addendum and Index. Wilder was a Platonist scholar, Physician, historian, translator, editor and prolific writer. He had hundreds of articles in publications of his time on Platonic, medical, philosophic and hermetic subjects, was editor of H.P. Blavatsky's "Isis Unveiled" and author of much of the Introductory chapter. Blavatsky held that only Wilder and Thomas Taylor had a deep intuition on Platonic subjects.

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Lulu.com

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1365645231

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9781365645235

The Everlasting Check

Hume on Miracles

By: Alexander George

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The Everlasting Check

Hume on Miracles

By: Alexander George

Alexander George’s lucid interpretation of Hume’s “Of Miracles” provides fresh insights into this provocative text, explaining the concepts and claims involved. He also shows why Hume’s argument fails to engage with committed religious thought and why philosophical argumentation so often proves ineffective in shaking people’s deeply held beliefs.

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Harvard University Press

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0674289242

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9780674289246

Copyright Law and the Public Interest in the Nineteenth Century

By: Isabella Alexander

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Copyright Law and the Public Interest in the Nineteenth Century

By: Isabella Alexander

Copyright law is commonly described as carrying out a balancing act between the interests of authors or owners and those of the public. While much academic work, both historical and contemporary, has been done on the authorship side of the equation, this book examines the notion of public interest, and the way that concepts of public interest and the rhetoric surrounding it have been involved in shaping the law of copyright. While many histories of copyright focus on the eighteenth century, this book's main concern is with the period after 1774. The nineteenth century was the period during which the boundaries of copyright, as we know it today, were drawn and ideas of “public interest” were integral to this process, but in different, and complex, ways. The book engages with this complexity by moving beyond debates about the appropriate duration of copyright, and considers the development of other important features of copyright law, such as the requirement of legal deposit, the principle that some works will not be subject to copyright protection on the grounds of public interest, and the law of infringement. While the focus of the book is on literary copyright, it also traces the expansion of copyright to cover new subject matters, such as music, dramatic works and lectures. The book concludes by examining the making of the 1911 Imperial Copyright Act – the statute upon which the law of copyright in Britain, and in all former British colonies, is based. The history traced in this book has considerable relevance to debates over the scope of copyright law in the present day; it emphasises the contingency and complexity of copyright law's development and current shape, as well as encouraging a critical approach to the justifications for copyright law.

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184731564X

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When Novels Were Books

When Novels Were Books

Index of English Literary Manuscripts

Index of English Literary Manuscripts

The Celtic Magazine. A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interest of the Celt at Home and Abroad

The Celtic Magazine. A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interest of the Celt at Home and Abroad

The Undying Soul And Other Writings of Alexander Wilder

The Undying Soul And Other Writings of Alexander Wilder

The Everlasting Check

The Everlasting Check

Copyright Law and the Public Interest in the Nineteenth Century

Copyright Law and the Public Interest in the Nineteenth Century

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