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Orr is the first scholar to take full advantage of new databases such as ECCO to read and reassess all extant fiction in English between 1690 and 1730. This trailblazing study of the relationship between the early novel and the publishing industry will help shape the contours of eighteenth-century fiction studies for decades to come.--Paula McDowell, New York University, is the author of The Invention of the Oral: Print Commerce and Fugitive Voices in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Orr is the first scholar to take full advantage of new databases such as ECCO to read and reassess all extant fiction in English between 1690 and 1730. This trailblazing study of the relationship between the early novel and the publishing industry will help shape the contours of eighteenth-century fiction studies for decades to come.--Paula McDowell, New York University, is the author of The Invention of the Oral: Print Commerce and Fugitive Voices in Eighteenth-Century Britain An important and trail breaking study, devoted to matters such as the shape and methods of the publishing industry; anonymous authorship; reprinted fiction; foreign fiction in translation; work 'with a purpose, ' including religious and allegorical works; and stories for entertainment, including criminal and amorous fiction. Here Orr offers a sustained argument that challenges orthodoxy at almost every turn, taking on the most influential accounts of fiction in the period. The scholarship is well nigh impeccable.--Pat Rogers, University of South Florida

Orr is the first scholar to take full advantage of new databases such as ECCO to read and reassess all extant fiction in English between 1690 and 1730. This trailblazing study of the relationship between the early novel and the publishing industry will help shape the contours of eighteenth-century fiction studies for decades to come. --Paula McDowell, New York University, is the author of The Invention of the Oral: Print Commerce and Fugitive Voices in Eighteenth-Century Britain An important and trail breaking study, devoted to matters such as the shape and methods of the publishing industry; anonymous authorship; reprinted fiction; foreign fiction in translation; work 'with a purpose, ' including religious and allegorical works; and stories for entertainment, including criminal and amorous fiction. Here Orr offers a sustained argument that challenges orthodoxy at almost every turn, taking on the most influential accounts of fiction in the period. The scholarship is well nigh impeccable. --Pat Rogers, University of South Florida

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Leah Orr is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

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