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Material Conditions: The Rise of the Novel
From Online Learning June 13, 2017
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Jane Austen’s novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’ was first published in 1813, at a time when literacy and print culture in England underwent a significant expansion. In this video, Dr Joe Bray and Dr Adam Smith discuss where the novel came from and the factors that lay behind its emergence.
Focusing in particular on Austen’s favourite novelist, Samuel Richardson, they highlight how the material form of the 18th-century novel was very different to that which it typically takes today and consider what implications this has for the way it would have been read.
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Focusing in particular on Austen’s favourite novelist, Samuel Richardson, they highlight how the material form of the 18th-century novel was very different to that which it typically takes today and consider what implications this has for the way it would have been read.
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