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Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Supreme Bon Ton
Author: Supreme Bon Ton
Author: George Jones (of -?)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Notes and Queries
Author: Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era
Author: Hannah Doherty HudsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009321919
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Jane Austen's ironic reference to 'the trash with which the press now groans' is only one of innumerable Romantic complaints about fiction's newly overwhelming presence. This book draws on evidence from over one hundred Romantic novels to explore the changes in publishing, reviewing, reading, and writing that accompanied the unprecedented growth in novel publication during the Romantic period. With particular focus on the infamous Minerva Press, the most prolific fiction-producer of the age, Hannah Hudson puts its popular authors in dialogue with writers such as Walter Scott, Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth, and William Godwin. Using paratextual materials including reviews, advertisements, and authorial prefaces, this book establishes the ubiquity of Romantic anxieties about literary 'excess', showing how beliefs about fictional overproduction created new literary hierarchies. Ultimately, Hudson argues that this so-called excess was a driving force in fictional experimentation and the advertising and publication practices that shaped the genre's reception. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Catalogue
Author: Dobell, P.J. & A.E., booksellers, LondonPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Democracy at the Opera
Author: Karen AhlquistPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252022722
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Was there opera - and just what was it like - in New York City before the advent of the Metropolitan Opera Company? In exploring these questions, Karen Ahlquist describes the social, cultural, economic, and esthetic factors that led to the assimilation of Italian opera - a complex, expensive genre of elitist reputation - into New York's business oriented community, with its English cultural heritage and sacred republican traditions. In her lively description of opera as few today can imagine it, Ahlquist considers Jacksonian-era efforts to create a polite social setting, the influence of a socially based clash between respectability and broad public access, and the role of music in shaping, not just reflecting, social and cultural life.
Monthly Review; Or, New Literary Journal
Author: Ralph GriffithsThe Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature, Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing ... and the Prices at which They Have Been Sold in the Present Century
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 330
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