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This ground-breaking collection of essays presents a new bookish literary history, which situates questions about books at the intersection of a range of debates about the role of authors and readers, the organization of knowledge, the vogue for collecting, and the impact of overlapping... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Edmund Curll: Add a description of this character.
- Samuel Johnson
- Walter Scott
- Mayhew
- Dibdin
- Shenstone
- Samuel Richardson
- Dodsley
- Jane Austen
- Oliver Goldsmith
- Byron
- Leigh Hunt
- Stretzer
- Leah Price
- Adam Clarke
- Daniel Defoe
- Gaskell
- Ezell
- Leake
- William Hazlitt
- Pamela
- Sterne
- Cheyne
- Darnton
- John Newbery
- John Bell
- Dr James
- Alfonso
- Burney
- Christopher Smart
- Henry Mackenzie
- Macmillan
- Routledge
- Jon Klancher
- Charles Lamb
- Irving
- Ballantyne
- Hawkins
- Wordsworth
Setting & Locations edit
- London
- Cambridge
- New York
- Whole Island Of Great Britain
- Eighteenth-century England
- Merryland
- Romantic
- Princeton
- Chicago
- Bibliomania
- Europe
- Scotland
- Encyclopaedia
- Goethe
- France
- Edinburgh
- Paris
- Basingstoke
- Ireland
- Clarendon
- Waverley
- Bristol
- Baltimore
- Mr. Town
- Curlism
- Philadelphia
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 028.9094109033
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Europe › England › 18th Century
- Books › History › Europe › England › 19th Century
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Movements & Periods › Romanticism
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Anthropology › Cultural
- Books › Reference › Writing › Genre Fiction › Romance
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Books & Reading › Book Industry
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Books & Reading › History of Books
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