This fascinating book probes the origins of mass-market series of literary 'classics'. Highly informative about the book trade in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Bonnell's study is also rich in details about book illustration, copyright law, canon formation, consumer culture, and the history of reading.
This fascinating book probes the origins of mass-market series of literary 'classics'. Highly informative about the book trade in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Bonnell's study is also rich in details about book illustration, copyright law, canon formation, consumer culture, and the history of reading.
* Introduction: A New Sensibility for Classics * 1: Our Native Classics, Complete and Uniform * 2: The Elzevirs of Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis * 3: William Creech and John Boyle: The Classics Move across Scotland * 4: John Bell's Little Trifling Edition Revisited * 5: Johnson's Prefaces and Bell's Connected System of Biography * 6: The Best Judges of Vendible Poetry: William Strahan, Joseph Wenman, et al. * 7: Robert Anderson's Comprehensive View of English Poetry * 8: Charles Cooke's Pocket Library * 9: . John Sharpe and Alexander Chalmers: A Body of Standard English Poetry? * 10: Splinter Canons, Fugitives, and Empire * Epilogue: A Library to Every House * Appendices * Bibliography * Index of Poets * Index of Booksellers, Printers, Publishers
* Introduction: A New Sensibility for Classics * 1: Our Native Classics, Complete and Uniform * 2: The Elzevirs of Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis * 3: William Creech and John Boyle: The Classics Move across Scotland * 4: John Bell's Little Trifling Edition Revisited * 5: Johnson's Prefaces and Bell's Connected System of Biography * 6: The Best Judges of Vendible Poetry: William Strahan, Joseph Wenman, et al. * 7: Robert Anderson's Comprehensive View of English Poetry * 8: Charles Cooke's Pocket Library * 9: . John Sharpe and Alexander Chalmers: A Body of Standard English Poetry? * 10: Splinter Canons, Fugitives, and Empire * Epilogue: A Library to Every House * Appendices * Bibliography * Index of Poets * Index of Booksellers, Printers, Publishers
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