Minervas Gothics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minervas Gothics write by Elizabeth Neiman. This book was released on 2019-02-15. Minervas Gothics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between 1790 and 1820, William Lane’s Minerva Press published an unprecedented number of circulating-library novels by obscure female authors. Because these novels catered to the day’s fashion for sentimental themes and Gothic romance, they were and continue to be generally dismissed as ephemera. Recently, however, scholars interested in historicizing Romantic conceptions of genius and authorship have begun to write Minerva back into literary history. By making Minerva novels themselves the centre of the analysis, Minerva’s Gothics illustrates how Romantic ‘anxiety’ is better conceptualized as a mutual though not entirely equitable ‘exchange’, a dynamic interrelationship between Minerva novels and Romantic-era politics and poetics that started in 1780, when Lane began publishing novels with some regularity. Reading Minerva novels for their shared popular conventions demonstrates that circulating-library novelists collectively recirculate, engage and modify commonplaces about women’s nature, the social order and, most importantly, the very Romantic redefinitions of authorship and literature that render their novels not worth reading. By recognizing Minerva’s collaborative rather than merely derivative authorial model, a forgotten pathway is restored between first-generation Romantic reactions to popular print culture and Percy Shelley’s influential conceptualization of the poet in A Defence of Poetry.
Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era
Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era write by Hannah Doherty Hudson. This book was released on 2023-04-30. Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 details.
Women's Authorship and the Early Gothic
Women's Authorship and the Early Gothic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women's Authorship and the Early Gothic write by Kathleen Hudson. This book was released on 2020-08-01. Women's Authorship and the Early Gothic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses previously marginalized or underappreciated women Gothic authors. Provides innovative readings of specific Gothic texts. Reintroduces lesser known primary texts into the critical discussion. Presents a core thesis which advances the field of Gothic studies and rethinks previous perceptions of literary culture.
The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 2, Gothic in the Nineteenth Century
The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 2, Gothic in the Nineteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 2, Gothic in the Nineteenth Century write by Catherine Spooner. This book was released on 2020-08-06. The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 2, Gothic in the Nineteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This second volume of The Cambridge History of the Gothic provides a rigorous account of the Gothic in British, American and Continental European culture, from the Romantic period through to the Victorian fin de siècle. Here, leading scholars in the fields of literature, theatre, architecture and the history of science and popular entertainment explore the Gothic in its numerous interdisciplinary forms and guises, as well as across a range of different international contexts. As much a cultural history of the Gothic in this period as an account of the ways in which the Gothic mode has participated in the formative historical events of modernity, the volume offers fresh perspectives on familiar themes while also drawing new critical attention to a range of hitherto overlooked concerns. From Romanticism, to Penny Bloods, Dickens and even the railway system, the volume provides a compelling and comprehensive study of nineteenth-century Gothic culture.
The Lost Books of Jane Austen
The Lost Books of Jane Austen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lost Books of Jane Austen write by Janine Barchas. This book was released on 2019-10-08. The Lost Books of Jane Austen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thoroughly innovative and occasionally irreverent, this book will appeal in equal measure to book historians, Austen fans, and scholars of literary celebrity.
