Social Authorship and the Advent of Print

Studies literary culture and printing in early modern Britain. Contents: Introduction: The Changing Culture of Authorship and the History of the Book The Social Author: Manuscript Culture, Writers, and Readers Literary Pirates and Reluctant Authors: Some Peculiar Institutions of Authorship The Very Early Career of Alexander Pope Getting into Print: London and the Social Author Getting into Print: Literary Life outside London Making a Classic: The Advent of the Literary Series and the National Author