The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel: From Richardson to George EliotThe Anthology and the Rise of the Novel, first published in 2000, brings together two traditionally antagonistic fields, book history and narrative theory, to challenge established theories of 'the rise of the novel'. Leah Price shows that far from leveling class or gender distinctions, as has long been claimed, the novel has consistently located them within its own audience. Shedding new light on Richardson and Radcliffe, Scott and George Eliot, this book asks why the epistolary novel disappeared, how the book review emerged, why eighteenth-century abridgers designed their books for women while Victorian publishers marketed them to men, and how editors' reproduction of old texts has shaped authors' production of new ones. This innovative study will change the way we think not just about the history of reading, but about the genealogy of the canon wars, the future of intellectual property, and the role that anthologies play in our own classrooms. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Richardsons economies of scale | 13 |
Writing against the moment | 15 |
Meaning and gaping | 27 |
Copy in other Hands | 35 |
The invisible hand | 42 |
Scott and the literaryhistorical novel | 48 |
Cultures of the commonplace | 67 |
Ferriers secondhand sentiments | 99 |
George Eliot and the production of consumers | 105 |
Reading against the plot | 107 |
Women of maxims | 119 |
Outside sayings and doings | 128 |
The ethics of the review | 137 |
The business of the novel | 149 |
Notes | 157 |
Knoxs scissordoings | 70 |
Bowdlers private public | 77 |
Radcliffes uncommon readers | 90 |
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The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel: From Richardson to George Eliot Leah Price No preview available - 2000 |
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Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture: Myth, Media, and the Man Ann Cline Kelly No preview available - 2002 |