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The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel: From Richardson to George Eliot
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- ISBN-100521539390
- ISBN-13978-0521539395
- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication dateAugust 18, 2003
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6 x 0.59 x 9 inches
- Print length236 pages
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Editorial Reviews
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"Fascinating and intricate..." Victorians Institute Journal
"Dazzlingly inventive." Review of English Studies
"Price...brings together book history and narrative theory in subtle ways to reach sometimes surprisingly original and engaging conclusions about the effects anthologizers, abridgers, and republishers have had on the production and form of naratives, particularly women's fiction....The book is unusually well informed by contemporaneous as well as contemporary reviews and criticism. Equally refreshing is the thoughtfulness and frequent wry duality of Price's observations....Essential for any self-respecting academic library..." Choice
"Groundbreaking...utterly brillliant...material history at its best." Wordsworth Circle
"Leah Price's insightful and wide-range study of the close and complex relationships between the anthology and the rise of the novel is essentially a study of quotation in and quotation of the novel....One of the many strengths of this ambitious book is that Price demonstrates how the practice of anthologising depends on several paradoxes of exclusion and inclusion, both social and literary....Price charts a significant shift in attitudes regarding the ways of reading and writing embodied in anthologies....Both the sweep of her argument and the quality of her particular readings make this a very important book about books and their readers." SHARP News
"Richly researched, wonderfully provocative book." Nineteenth-Century Literature
"Meticulous, thoughtful, and original." Eighteenth Century Studies
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- Publisher : Cambridge University Press
- Publication date : August 18, 2003
- Language : English
- Print length : 236 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0521539390
- ISBN-13 : 978-0521539395
- Item Weight : 11.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.59 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,204,504 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,506 in English Literature
- #4,239 in British & Irish Literary Criticism (Books)
- #12,989 in Literary Criticism & Theory
About the author

Leah Price is Professor of English and Chair of the History & Literature program at Harvard University. She teaches the novel, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture, narrative theory, gender studies, and the history of books and reading. Price is Humanities Director at the Radcliffe Institute; she also co-directs the faculty seminar on the History of the Book at the Harvard Humanities Center. In 2006 Price was awarded a chair in recognition of exceptional graduate and undergraduate teaching.
Price's books include The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel and (co-edited with Pamela Thurschwell) Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture; she has also edited (with Seth Lerer) a special issue of PMLA on The History of the Book and the Idea of Literature. She writes on old and new media for the New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, and the Boston Globe.
Unpacking my Library: Writers and their Books is just out from Yale University Press; How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain is forthcoming from Princeton in spring 2012. Price is at work on a new book, The Book that Never Was: How Idealizing the Printed Past is Distorting Our Digital Future.





