Reading History in Britain and America, C.1750-C.1840 AUTH-11009797 in a book that no

in a book that no cinema fan will want to miss

infidels standing in the way of human progress

was chosen as the AAN's 2008 Donald M

'Frankenstein'

ISBN13: 9781545501702

Reading History in Britain and America, C.1750-C.1840 AUTH-11009797 in a book that noThe period between c. 1750 and c. 1840 is popularly known for the rise of the novel, yet historical works by Enlightenment writers, including David Hume, Edward Gibbon and William Robertson, were some of its most commercially successful books. Moving beyond the range of previous studies that have sought to explain this success by focussing on publishers, writers and their ideas, Mark Towsey's study is the first to focus on the reading audiences