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Knowing Books: The Consciousness of Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain - Lupton, Christina
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The eighteenth century has long been associated with realism and objective description, modes of representation that deemphasize writing. But in the middle decades of the century, Christina Lupton observes, authors described with surprising candor the material and economic facets of their own texts' production. In Knowing Books Lupton examines a variety of eighteenth-century sources, including sermons, graffiti, philosophical texts, and magazines, which illustrate the range and character of mid-century experiments with ...

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Knowing Books: The Consciousness of Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain 2011, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

ISBN-13: 9780812243727

Hardcover