Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England

by Jan Fergus

Many scholars have written about eighteenth-century English novels, but no one really knows who read them. This study provides historical data on the provincial reading publics for various forms of fiction--novels, plays, chapbooks, children's books, and magazines. Archival records of Midland booksellers based in five market towns and selling printed matter to over thirty-three hundred customers between 1744 and 1807 form the basis for new information...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199297827
• ISBN13: 9780199297825
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.7"