“As Fully Incomprehensible as the Northern Lights”: Literary Identities in The Adventures of an Author

This essay considers an anonymously-written and understudied novel, The Adventures of an Author (1767), as self-consciously reflecting the complexities and multiplicities of professional authorship in the mid-eighteenth century. Containing a vividly-realized fictive print society, this two-volume wo...

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Main Author: Heather Ladd
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ghent University 2015-06-01
Series:Authorship
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Online Access:http://www.authorship.ugent.be/article/view/1104/1124