Format:
Online-Ressource
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ISBN:
9781009321921
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in romanticism
Content:
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. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for det
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 256 - 277
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009321969
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009321938
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Doherty Hudson, Hannah Romantic fiction and literary excess in the Minerva Press era Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023 ISBN 9781009321969
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Minerva Press
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Großbritannien
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Roman
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Schauerroman
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Geschichte 1700-1900
DOI:
10.1017/9781009321921
