Knowing Books: The Consciousness of Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain

by Christina Lupton

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812243722
• ISBN13: 9780812243727
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"