Emily C. Friedman is a scholar of the long eighteenth century, using book history and digital practices in her classroom and in her research. She is particularly interested in recovering the lived experiences of readers and writers: from the ways they understood scent to the notebooks they used, to the effects of changing market pressures and technologies on the experience of literary exchange.
Research Interests
- long 18th-century British literature; early material culture; genre studies; fiction; women's and gender studies; history of the book; textual criticism
