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11. Street Literature and Cheap Fiction

Published:2023-09-04 Issue: Volume: Page:321-346
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Container-title:Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
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Author:

Atkinson David¹

Affiliation:

1. University of Aberdeen

Abstract

The increasing prominence of the Scottish-printed chapbook is contextualized within the broader theme of the spread of printing and slowly rising literacy rates within Scotland. More importantly for current research trends, some issues relating to the applicability of the concepts of popular culture and mentalité are raised, and the provisional answers appear less straightforward and more subtle than they might immediately appear to be. The major difficulties in estimating the output of Scottish-printed chapbooks are identified: some relate to the very definition of ‘chapbook’, while others relate to the existence and quality of catalogues and lists. Nevertheless, a tentative estimate of at least 1,200 chapbook editions published between 1780 and 1800 is proffered. The chapter shows that there remains a considerable amount to be learned from a close examination of religious chapbooks and their relationships with chapbooks on other themes. Concluding remarks comment on the antipathy towards chapbooks that had gained ground in some quarters by the early nineteenth century.

Publisher

Open Book Publishers

Link

https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0347.11.pdf

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