Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals

By Manushag N. Powell

Book Overview

This book embraces periodicals across the first two-thirds of the eighteenth century to argue that this mode of writing, packed with humor and verve, originates the figure of the mass market author as a literary character. The author posits that, at the same time, periodicals harbor inescapable doubts as to whether such a character is sustainable.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611485959
• ISBN13: 9781611485950
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher