Authorship, Commerce and the Public: Scenes of Writing 1750-1850

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These essays explore the remarkable expansion of publishing from 1750 to 1850 which reflected the growth of literacy, and the diversification of the reading public. Experimentation with new genres, methods of advertising, marketing and dissemination, forms of critical reception and modes of access to writing are also examined in detail. This collection represents a new wave of critical writing extending cultural materialism beyond its accustomed concern with historicizing the words on the page into the economics ...
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These essays explore the remarkable expansion of publishing from 1750 to 1850 which reflected the growth of literacy, and the diversification of the reading public. Experimentation with new genres, methods of advertising, marketing and dissemination, forms of critical reception and modes of access to writing are also examined in detail. This collection represents a new wave of critical writing extending cultural materialism beyond its accustomed concern with historicizing the words on the page into the economics of literature, and the investigation of neglected areas of print culture.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780333964552
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Publication date: 12/13/2002
  • Edition description: REV
  • Pages: 264
  • Product dimensions: 5.46 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.82 (d)

Meet the Author

Caroline Franklin is Senior Lecturer at the University of Wales, Swansea.

Emma Clery is Senior Lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University.

Peter Garside is at the School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research, Cardiff University, Wales.
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Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figure
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
1 Introduction 1
Pt. I Authorship 27
2 Anne Grant and the Professionalization of Privacy 29
3 Women Poets and Anonymity in the Romantic Era 44
4 Walter Scott: Anonymity and the Unmasking of Harlequin 54
5 James Hogg and his Publishers: The Queen's Wake and Queen Haynde 67
6 Authority and Community: John Clare and John Taylor 84
Pt. II Commerce 101
7 Eliza Haywood and the Discourse of Taste 103
8 Camilla in the Marketplace: Moral Marketing and Feminist Editing an 1796 and 1802 120
9 Economics, Expertise, Enterprise and the Literary Scene: The Commercial Management Ethos in British Circulating Libraries, 1780-1830 136
10 Popular Romanticism? Publishing, Readership and the Making of Literary History 153
Pt. III The Public 169
11 Cultures of Print: Mass Markets and Theories of the Liberal Public Sphere 171
12 'The Hastings Circle': Writers and Writing in Calcutta in the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century 186
13 A 'Memorable Grave': The Abject Subtext of Charles Lloyd's Edmund Oliver 203
14 State Patronage and the Romantic Writer: Henry Taylor's Modest Proposal 218
Index 237
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