In:Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century: Essays for Allen Reddick
Edited by Antoinina Bevan Zlatar, Mark Ittensohn, Enit Karafili Steiner and Olga Timofeeva
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 16] 2021
► pp. 103–119
Battles of words and books
Mock-heroic poems and the book trade, 1660–1740
Published online: 16 December 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.16.06dep
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.16.06dep
Article outline
- Mock Heroics
- Battles of words and books
- Why and how stationers invited the wrath of writers
Notes Bibliography
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