The economy of literary form : English literature and the industrialization of publishing, 1800-1850
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The economy of literary form : English literature and the industrialization of publishing, 1800-1850
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996
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注記
Bibliography: p. 191-207
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In the first half of the 19th century technological developments in printing led to the industrialization of English publishing, made books and periodicals affordable to many new readers, and changed the market for literature. This work analyzes the effect on literary form as authors and publishers responded to the new demands of a rapidly expanding literary marketplace. These developments offer a new understanding of the differences between Romantic and Victorian literature. As publishing became more profitable, authors became able to devote themselves more professionally to their writing. The changing market for literature also affected the relative cultural status of literary forms. As poetry became less profitable, it became hard to publish. As periodicals grew in popularity, essays became the centre of reviews, and their authors the arbiters of culture. The novel, which had long sold chiefly to circulating libraries, found an outlet in magazine serialization - and novelists discovered a new popular audience.
With chapters on William Wordsworth, Thomas Carlyle, and Jane Austen, as well as on specific literary genres, this study seeks to provide a synthesis of recent publishing history which helps to explain the differences and continuities between Romantic and Victorian literature. It should be of interest not only to literary critics and historians but also to bibliographic historians, cultural or economic historians, and all who have an interest in the commercialization of English publishing in the 19th century.
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