Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 January 2007
- ISBN 9780199297825
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 240x160x20 mm
- Weight 523 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 map, 1 line drawing, numerus tables 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
Many scholars have written about eighteenth-century English novels, but no one really knows who read them. This study provides historical data on the provincial reading publics for various forms of fiction - novels, plays, chapbooks, children's books, and magazines. Archival records of Midland booksellers based in five market towns and selling printed matter to over thirty-three hundred customers between 1744 and 1807 form the basis for new information about who actually bought and borrowed different kinds of fiction in eighteenth-century provincial England.
This book thus offers the first solid demographic information about actual readership in eighteenth-century provincial England, not only about the class, profession, age, and sex of readers but also about the market of available fiction from which they made their choices - and some speculation about why they made the choices they did. Contrary to received ideas, men in the provinces were the principal customers for eighteenth-century novels, including those written by women. Provincial customers preferred to buy rather than borrow fiction, and women preferred plays and novels written by women - women's works would have done better had women been the principal consumers. That is, demand for fiction (written by both men and women) was about equal for the first five years, but afterward the demand for women's works declined. Both men and women preferred novels with identifiable authors to anonymous ones, however, and both boys and men were able to cross gender lines in their reading. Goody Two-Shoes was one of the more popular children's books among Rugby schoolboys, and men read the Lady's Magazine. These and other findings will alter the way scholars look at the fiction of the period, the questions asked, and the histories told of it.
fascinating study of provincial bookbuyers and book borrowers in the Midlands in the second half of the eighteenth century.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Audiences for novels: gendered reading
Consuming practices: canonicity, novels, and plays
Schoolboy readers: John Newbery's Goody Two-Shoes and licensed war
Schoolboy practices: novels, children's books, chapbooks, and magazines
Audiences for magazines and serialized publications
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendices
Clays' circulating library stocks
Novels in English bought and borrowed, 1744-1807, by date of first publication
All children's book, chapbook titles bought by Rugby boys
Magazines taken by Clay customers, Daventry, Rugby, and Lutterworth only, 1746-1780, with customer totals
Adult consumers of novels and magazines, 1746-1780, Daventry, Rugby, Lutterworth only
