The Novel and the Blank: A Literary History of the Book Trades in Eighteenth-Century British America

＂This book explores eighteenth-century British American print shops, highlighting their diverse output--including blank forms, novels, and religious tracts-and their impact on literary culture, the public sphere, and the interplay of religion and secularism＂-- Provided by publisher

Matthew P. Brown is an associate professor in the Center for the Book and the Department of English at the University of Iowa.