Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England - Fergus, Jan
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Provides historical data on the provincial reading publics for various forms of fiction - novels, plays, chapbooks, children's books, and magazines. This book offers information about actual readership in eighteenth-century provincial England; about the class, profession, age, and sex of readers; and more.
It is well known that the English novel took shape in the eighteenth century, but no one knows who read novels like Humphry Clinker and Clarissa when they were first published. Drawing on booksellers' archives and parish records, this book shows who in the Midlands actually bought novels, plays, and fiction magazines in the eighteenth century.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Provides historical data on the provincial reading publics for various forms of fiction - novels, plays, chapbooks, children's books, and magazines. This book offers information about actual readership in eighteenth-century provincial England; about the class, profession, age, and sex of readers; and more.
It is well known that the English novel took shape in the eighteenth century, but no one knows who read novels like Humphry Clinker and Clarissa when they were first published. Drawing on booksellers' archives and parish records, this book shows who in the Midlands actually bought novels, plays, and fiction magazines in the eighteenth century.
Autorenporträt
Jan Fergus, Professor of English at Lehigh University and a popular speaker at meetings of the Jane Austen Society of North America, has published two books on Jane Austen as well as a number of articles on Austen and on eighteenth-century audiences. She received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to complete this book on the reading public.