Table of Contents

Part I. Author, Book, Reader: 1. Preface: prose fiction and print culture in eighteenth-century Britain; 2. Pre-scripts: the contexts of literary production; 3. Post scripts: the fate of the page in Charles Gildon's epistolary fiction; Part II. Reader, Book, Author: 4. In other words: printers' ornaments and the substitutions of text; 5. Inanimate fiction: circulating stories in object narratives; 6. Only a female pen: women writers and fictions of the page; 7. After words; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Promotional Information

Explains how new print technologies and the expansion of print culture allowed eighteenth-century writers to develop the novel form.

About the Author

Christopher Flint is Associate Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio.

Reviews

'The Appearance of Print in Eighteenth Century Fiction … offers a rich account of Richardson's typographical practices, linking these to Sterne and Mackenzie: this situation of Richardson within such a tradition is one aspect of the study, but a welcome one.' The Eighteenth Century