Romantic fiction and literary excess in the Minerva Press era:

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, review...

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Main Author: Doherty Hudson, Hannah (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press 2023
Series:Cambridge studies in Romanticism
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Summary: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
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Introduction: The Minerva Press Era -- Minerva's Writers and Reviewers -- Godwin, Bage, Parsons, and Novels As They Are -- Imitating Ann Radcliffe -- Hannah More's Clebs and the Novel of the Moment -- Fiction as Fashion from Belinda to Miss Byron -- Walter Scott's Industrial Antiques -- Epilogue: Remainders
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 284 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009321921
DOI:10.1017/9781009321921

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