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Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

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The uniformity of the eighteenth-century novel in today's paperbacks and critical editions no longer conveys the early novel's visual exuberance. Janine Barchas explains how during the genre's formation in the first half of the eighteenth century, the novel's material embodiment as printed book rivalled its narrative content in diversity and creativity. Innovations in layout, ornamentation, and even punctuation found in, for example, the novels of Richardson, an author who printed his own books, help shape a tradition of early visual ingenuity. From the beginning of the novel's emergence in Britain, prose writers including Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Henry and Sarah Fielding experimented with the novel's appearance. Lavishly illustrated with more than 100 graphic features found in eighteenth-century editions, this important study aims to recover the visual context in which the eighteenth-century novel was produced and read.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; 1. Expanding the literary text: a textual studies approach; 2. The frontispiece: counterfeit authority and the author portrait; 3. The title page: advertisement, identity, and deceit; 4. Clarissa's musical score: a novel's politics engraved on copper plate; 5. The space of time: graphic design and temporal distortion; 6. Sarah Fielding's David Simple: a case study in the interpretive significance of punctuation; 7. The list and index: a culture of collecting imprints upon the novel.

About the Author :
Janine Barchas is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at University of Texas at Austin. She is the editor of The Annotations in Lady Bradshaigh's Copy of Clarissa (1998), and has contributed to Essays on Eighteenth-Century Genre and Culture (2001).

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From the hardback review: '... a handsomely illustrated book, argued with panache.' Times Literary Supplement From the hardback review: 'A welcome addition ... beautifully produced by Cambridge. Because of its ornamental and substantive merits it belongs in every personal and institutional library concerned with the eighteenth-century novel.' British Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies From the hardback review: '... Barchas's discussion of the interpretive role of these graphic features, particularly in relation to the novel's formal development, is nuanced and savvy; in recalling attention to the visual context and materiality of the early novel, it opens the way to a potentially rich new area of discussion.' Sharp News From the hardback review: 'For the first time, we have a book that systematically examines the presentation of the novel as a part of its meaning ... the great strength of this beautifully presented, lavishly illustrated, and genially written book is its vivid recapturing of the complexity and excitement of the book market in the early eighteenth century ... a delightful, informative, and highly suggestive survey of printing techniques that will compel any reader of the early novel to see the form in a new, and richly material fashion.' Libraries & Culture From the hardback review: '... Graphic Design will have, and deserves to have, many imitators.' The Library 'Barchas in Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel offers a fascinating composite portrait of this exuberantly bookish age.' The Wordsworth Circle


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780521819084
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Height: 255 mm
  • No of Pages: 312
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 182 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0521819083
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jun 2003
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 876 gr


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