This innovative collection of essays addresses important issues in the history of the book. The multidisciplinary essays consider different aspects of the production, circulation, and consumption of printed texts, analyzing such topics as market trends, modes of publication, and the use of pseudonyms by women writers. Contributors draw on speech act, reader response and gender theory in addition to historical, narratological, materialist, and bibliographical perspectives to study authors such as Dickens, the Brontës and George Eliot.
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"Anyone interested in the British book trade, the kinds of audiences who read the books, and the effects of reading will find this a very useful collection." Studies in English Literature
"Literature in the Marketplace is a valuable addition to our growing knowledge of strategies for understanding the interplay of the effects of format on author, production, and audience in the Victorian marketplace." Barbara Quinn Schmidt, Victorian Periodicals Review
"John O. Jordan's and Robert L. Patten's engaging collection of essays, Literature in the Marketplace, focuses predominantly upon the role of periodicals and serial publications in Victorian culture, with a notable concentration upon the demands of bibliosgraphic criticism itself in the editors' `Introduction' and in Simon Eliot's chapter, `Some Trends in British Book Production, 1800-1919'. The volume includes significant chapters on Victorian periodical literature...." John Kandl, The Wordsworth Circle
"...anyone who is interested in nineteenth-century English literature, its publication, dissemination and readership, will find much to reward its perusal." Clive Hurst, Dickens Quarterly
"...some excellent work. ...open some new ground, and ...illustrate the great and still growing diversity of this field of study." John Feather, SHARP News
"Literature in the Marketplace is a valuable addition to our growing knowledge of strategies for understanding the interplay of the effects of format on author, production, and audience in the Victorian marketplace." Barbara Quinn Schmidt, Victorian Periodicals Review
"John O. Jordan's and Robert L. Patten's engaging collection of essays, Literature in the Marketplace, focuses predominantly upon the role of periodicals and serial publications in Victorian culture, with a notable concentration upon the demands of bibliosgraphic criticism itself in the editors' `Introduction' and in Simon Eliot's chapter, `Some Trends in British Book Production, 1800-1919'. The volume includes significant chapters on Victorian periodical literature...." John Kandl, The Wordsworth Circle
"...anyone who is interested in nineteenth-century English literature, its publication, dissemination and readership, will find much to reward its perusal." Clive Hurst, Dickens Quarterly
"...some excellent work. ...open some new ground, and ...illustrate the great and still growing diversity of this field of study." John Feather, SHARP News
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This innovative collection of essays addresses important issues in the history of the book. The multidisciplinary essays consider different aspects of the production, circulation, and consumption of printed texts, and topics studied include market trends, modes of publication, the use of pseudonyms by women writers. Contributors draw on speech act, reader response and gender theory in addition to historical, narratological, materialist, and bibliographical perspectives to study authors such as Dickens, the Brontës and George Eliot.
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A few years ago David Simpson called for a "Return to 'History" in the practice of literary criticism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
intransigent details, copyright pieces, serial fiction, serial text, one essayist, male pseudonym, bibliographical description, serial parts, desultory reading, monthly pattern, registry books, descriptive bibliography, frontispiece portrait Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers, George Eliot, William Wordsworth, Fortnightly Review, Oxford University Press, Nicholas Nickleby, University of Chicago Press, Tony Weller, Sam Weller, George Meredith, Westminster Review, Pall Mall Gazette, New Quarterly, Elizabeth Gaskell, Bleak House, George Sand, Walter Scott, British Museum, Mary Ann Evans, Richard Altick, United States, Cambridge University Press, David Copperfield New!
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A few years ago David Simpson called for a "Return to 'History" in the practice of literary criticism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers, George Eliot, William Wordsworth, Fortnightly Review, Oxford University Press, Nicholas Nickleby, University of Chicago Press, Tony Weller, Sam Weller, George Meredith, Westminster Review, Pall Mall Gazette, New Quarterly, Elizabeth Gaskell, Bleak House, George Sand, Walter Scott, British Museum, Mary Ann Evans, Richard Altick, United States, Cambridge University Press, David Copperfield New!
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- The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth (Wordsworth Poetry Library) by William Wordsworth on 6 pages
- English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 by Richard D. Altick on 5 pages
- Our Mutual Friend Pb (BBC) by Charles Dickens on 5 pages
- A Literature of Their Own by Elaine Showalter on 4 pages
- Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts by D. F. McKenzie on 4 pages
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- "The Busiest Man in England": Grant Allen and the Writing Trade, 1875-1900 by Peter Morton in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Imperial Bibles Domestic Bodies: Women Sexuality & Religion In Victorian Market by Mary Wilson Carpenter in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Gender and the Victorian Periodical (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Hilary Fraser in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell's Work by Linda K. Hughes in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- CONSUMING FANTASIES: LABOR, LEISURE, AND THE LONDON SHOPGIRL, by LISE SHAPIRO SANDERS in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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