Printing History and Cultural Change: Fashioning the Modern English Text in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Printing History and Cultural Change: Fashioning the Modern English Text in Eighteenth-Century Britain 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780192898135,0192898132,9780192653123, 0192653121

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0192653121
• ISBN-13: 9780192653123
• Author: Richard Wendorf

This study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive examinations ever devoted to a critical transformation in the material substance of the printed page; it carries out this exploration in the history of the book, moreover, by embedding these typographical changes in the context of other cultural phenomena in eighteenth-century Britain. The gradual abandonment of pervasive capitalization, italics, and caps and small caps in books printed in London, Dublin, and the American colonies between 1740 and 1780 is mapped in five-year increments which reveal that the appearance of the modern page in English began to emerge around 1765.

Table contents:

1. The Great Divide

2. Literary Texts and Collections

3. Religious Texts

4. Capitalizing the Colonies

5. Printers, Readers, and Writers

6. Printing and Interpretation

7. Historical Correlatives

8. Historical Explanations

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