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

by E. Clery (Editor), C. Franklin (Editor), P. Garside (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333964552
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/02/2002
Edition description:	2002
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

PAUL CHIRICO Director of Studies in English, Jesus College, Cambridge WILLIAM CHRISTIE Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Sydney BENJAMIN COLBERT Senior Lecturer in English, University of Wolverhampton PAULA R. FELDMAN C. Wallace Martin Chair in English, University of South Carolina MICHAEL J. FRANKLIN Research Fellow, English Department, University of Wales, Aberystwyth ROBERT W. JONES Lecturer, School of English, University of Leeds PAUL KEEN Associate Professor of English, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada CLAIRE LAMONT Professor of English Romantic Literature, University of Newcastle DOUGLAS S. MACK Professor, Department of English Studies, University of Stirling PAM PERKINS Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Manitoba SARA SALIH Lecturer in English, University of Kent, Canterbury CHRISTOPHER SKELTON-FOORD Reading Rooms and Information Services Manager, The British Library Newspaper Library, London JUDITH STODDART Associate Professor of English, Michigan State University

Table of Contents

List of Tables List of Plates Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: P.Garside, E.J.Clery & C.Franklin PART I: AUTHORSHIP Anne Grant and the Professionalization of Privacy; P.Perkins Women Poets and Anonymity in the Romantic Era; P.R.Feldman Walter Scott: Anonymity and the Unmasking of the Harlequin; C.Lamont James Hogg and his Publishers: The Queen's Wake and Queen Hynde; D.S.Mack Author and Community: John Clare and John Taylor; P.Chirico PART II: COMMERCE Eliza Haywood and the Discourse of Taste; R.W.Jones Camilla in the Market Place: Moral Marketing and Feminist Editing in 1796 and 1802; S.Salih Economics, Expertise, Enterprise and the Literary Scene: The Commercial Management Ethos in British Circulating Libraries; C.Skelton-Foord Popular Romanticism?: Publishing, Readership and the Making of Literary History; B.Colbert PART III: THE PUBIC Cultures of Print: Mass Markets and Theories of the Liberal Public Sphere; J.Stoddart 'The Hastings Circle': Writers and Writing in Calcutta in the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century; M.J.Franklin A 'Memorable Grave': The Abject Subtext of Charles Lloyd's Edmund Oliver; P.Keen State Patronage and the Romantic Writer: Henry Taylor's Modest Proposal; W.Christie Index

Editorial Reviews

'This volume effectively maps out a new field of interdisciplinary study, and it brings together scholars whose very different approaches are all individual and cutting edge...this is a book that can be used by students at all levels, from undergraduates right through to high-level researchers.' - Professor Philip Martin, Royal Holloway College, University of London

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