Peggy Keeran All Manuals & Guides Book | sku-22093338

Peggy Keeran's paperback Literary Research and the British Eighteenth Century: Strategies and Sources is listed under All Manuals & Guides as sku-22093338. It examines how scholars research primary and secondary literary sources from a period when patronage by benefactors or subscription persisted alongside developing publishing and bookselling industries.

Book reviewing became established in the second half of the century; the first review periodical was founded in 1749. The book discusses publishing, growing literacy, the circulation of literature through salons, private societies and coffee houses, book reviews, and the growth of print and digital source collections.

It covers research guides, union catalogs, bibliographies, scholarly journals, manuscripts, archives, contemporary reception, electronic texts and journals, and Web resources. Chapters compare sources and explain methods for finding relevant material.