Facts, Fictions, and Faith inEnglish Popular Print, 1660ï»Â¿–ï»Â¿1800

and responses to that process by reconstructing the production and reception of bestselling print. Publishers are more important to this story than authors because they tinkered with contents and meanings over time. Their wares consequently illustrate changing mainstream beliefs about fact, experience, causation, logic, and authority. By the later eighteenth century, what was produced for a general audience said important things about how English people perceived their identities, communities, and histories. [Publisher's text]

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