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Literature in the Marketplace:

Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices
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John O. Jordan, Robert L. Patten
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Cambridge University Press, Jul 28, 2003 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 356 pages
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 Brontės and George Eliot.
  

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This anthology asks the broad question, "How does form affect reception" in nineteenth century Britain especially? Several essays focus, in different ways, on the vicissitudes of seriality. Approaches ... Read full review

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Contents

Introduction publishing history as hypertext
1
Some trends in British book production 18001919
19
Wordsworth in the Keepsake 1829
44
Copyright and the publishing of Wordsworth 18501900
74
Sam Wellers valentine
93
Serialized retrospection in The Pickwick Papers
123
Textualsexual pleasure and serial publication
143
The disease of reading and Victorian periodicals
165
How historians study reader response or what did Jo think of Bleak House?
195
Dickens in the visual market
213
Male pseudonyms and female authority in Victorian England
250
A bibliographical approach to Victorian publishing
269
The wicked Westminster the Fortnightly and Walter Paters Renaissance
289
Serial fiction in Australian colonial newspapers
306
Index
325
Copyright

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About the author (2003)

Robert L. Patten is Lynette S. Autrey Professor in Humanities at Rice University.

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