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