Printing history and cultural change : fashioning the modern English text in eighteenth-century Britain

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Titel
Printing history and cultural change fashioning the modern English text in eighteenth-century Britain
verantwortlich
Wendorf, Richard (VerfasserIn); Oxford University Press (Verlag)
Ausgabe
First edition
veröffentlicht
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022
Erscheinungsjahr
2022
Erscheint auch als
Wendorf, Richard, Printing history and cultural change, First edition, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022, 1 Online-Ressource (x, 328 Seiten)
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Zusammenfassung
"This study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive examinations ever devoted to a critical transformation in the material substance of the printed page; it carries out this exploration in the history of the book, moreover, by embedding these typographical changes in the context of other cultural phenomena in eighteenth-century Britain. The gradual abandonment of pervasive capitalization, italics, and caps and small caps in books printed in London, Dublin, and the American colonies between 1740 and 1780 is mapped in five-year increments which reveal that the appearance of the modern page in English began to emerge around 1765. This descriptive and analytical account focuses on poetry, classical texts, Shakespeare, contemporary plays, the novel, the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, sermons and religious writings, newspapers, magazines, anthologies, government publications, and private correspondence; it also examines the reading public, canon formation, editorial theory and practice, and the role of typography in textual interpretation. These changes in printing conventions are then compared to other aspects of cultural change: the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1752, the publication of Johnson's Dictionary in 1755, the transformation of shop signs and the imposition of house numbers in London beginning in 1762, and the evolution of the English language and of English prose style. This study concludes that this fundamental shift in printing conventions was closely tied to a pervasive interest in refinement, regularity, and standardization in the second half of the century—and that it was therefore an important component in the self-conscious process of modernizing British culture."--
Umfang
xviii, 328 Seiten; Illustrationen
Sprache
Englisch
Schlagworte
Englisch > Literatur > Druckwerk > Typografie > Geschichte 1740-1780
RVK-Notation
  • Anglistik. Amerikanistik
    • Englische Literatur
      • 17. und 18. Jahrhundert (1640-1770)
        • Literaturgeschichte
          • Darstellungen unter besonderen Gesichtspunkten
BK-Notation
18.05 Englische Literatur
ISBN
9780192898135
DOI
10.1093/oso/9780192898135.001.0001