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Auteur(s) : Hudson, Hannah Doherty
Titre(s) : Romantic fiction and literary excess in the Minerva Press era [Texte imprimé] / Hannah Doherty Hudson, ...
Publication : Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge university press, 2023
Description matérielle : xiv, 284 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Collection : Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 142
Lien à la collection : Cambridge studies in romanticism
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-277) and index
"In the Romantic period, more novels were published in England than ever before. This
book offers scholars and book historians a new perspective on the effects of this
change, showing how this age of mass production inspired both critique and innovation
among authors, publishers, readers and reviewers" ; Jane Austen's ironic reference
to 'the trash with which the press now groans' is only one of innumerable Romantic
complaints about fiction's newly overwhelming presence. This book draws on evidence
from over one hundred Romantic novels to explore the changes in publishing, reviewing,
reading, and writing that accompanied the unprecedented growth in novel publication
during the Romantic period. With particular focus on the infamous Minerva Press, the
most prolific fiction-producer of the age, Hannah Hudson puts its popular authors
in dialogue with writers such as Walter Scott, Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth, and
William Godwin. Using paratextual materials including reviews, advertisements, and
authorial prefaces, this book establishes the ubiquity of Romantic anxieties about
literary 'excess', showing how beliefs about fictional overproduction created new
literary hierarchies. Ultimately, Hudson argues that this so-called excess was a driving
force in fictional experimentation and the advertising and publication practices that
shaped the genre's reception
Sujet(s) : Roman -- Édition -- Grande-Bretagne -- 18e siècle
Roman -- Édition -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle
Livres et lecture -- Grande-Bretagne -- 18e siècle
Livres et lecture -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle
Minerva press
Indice(s) Dewey : 070.509 42 (23e éd.) = Édition - Angleterre
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781009321969. - ISBN 100932196X (rel.). - ISBN 9781009321938. - ISBN 1009321935. - ISBN 9781009321921 (erroné). - ISBN 9781009321952 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47259569b
Notice n° :
FRBNF47259569
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Table des matières : Introduction: The Minerva Press Era ; 1. Minerva's Writers and Reviewers ; 2. Godwin, Bage, Parsons, and Novels As They Are ; 3. Imitating Ann Radcliffe ; 4. Hannah More's Cœlebs and the Novel of the Moment ; 5. Fiction as Fashion from Belinda to Miss Byron ; 6. Walter Scott's Industrial Antiques ; Epilogue: Remainders.