Samuel Johnson and the Impact of Print
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Samuel Johnson and the Impact of Print

(Originally published as Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson)

  1. 375 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Samuel Johnson and the Impact of Print

(Originally published as Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson)

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Bibliographical note and Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Print and Letters in Eighteenth-Century England
  7. Chapter I: The King of England Meets the Great Cham of Literature
  8. Chapter II: Printing, Bookselling, Readers, and Writers in Eighteenth-Century London
  9. Chapter III: Making the Writer’s Role in a Print Culture
  10. Chapter IV: The Writer as Culture Hero: Boswell’s Johnson
  11. Chapter V: Creating an Aura for Literary Texts in Print Culture
  12. Chapter VI: Reading and Readers: The Literacy Crisis of the Eighteenth-Century
  13. Chapter VII: The Place and Purpose of Letters in Print Society
  14. Chapter VIII: The Social Construction of Romantic Literature
  15. Appendix: Letters as a Socially Constructed Reality: A Schematic View
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index