Mid-Century Miscellaneous Collections: the Dodsley Group

Laura Mandell

Mid-Century Miscellaneous Collections: the Dodsley Group

Authors

Laura Mandell Miami University

Keywords:

poetry, 18th-century literature, 19th-century literature, literary history, popular literature, digital humanities, mediation, book history, print history, visual media,

Abstract

This short essay describes large poetry collections published during the mid-eighteenth-century, arguing that some of their characteristics and features reveal assumptions about what constitutes literature.