This book is a contribution to the new field of literary studies which is informed by book history and takes interest in the intersection of the ideal and material aspects of literature.
Joanna Maciulewicz is Assistant Professor at the Department of English Literature, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.
1. Introduction.- 2. From Orality to Script: Literacy, Autonomy and Authority in Clarissa.- 3. Script, Print and the Materiality of Texts.- 4. The Stories of Reading in the Eighteenth-Century Novels.- 5. The Authors' Search for Creative Autonomy.- 6. Midwives of the Muses: Representations of the Transformation of Literary Patronage.- 7. Conclusion.-Index