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Bookish histories : books, literature, and commercial modernity, 1700-1900
\"This ground-breaking collection of essays presents a new bookish literary history, which situates questions about books at the intersection of a range of debates about the role of authors and readers, the organization of knowledge, the vogue for collecting, and the impact of overlapping technologies of writing and shifting generic boundaries\"--Provided by publisher.
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“Before Our Eyes”: Romantic Historical Fiction and the Apparitions of Reading
This essay reads the seminal historical fiction of Walter Scott in conjunction with the medical apparition discourse that flourished in the early nineteenth century. It argues that the tactics of the historical novel in this period are best understood through an “apparitional poetics” that attempts to solve the problem of the historical image.
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The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland
Ina Ferris examines the way in which the problem of 'incomplete union' generated by the formation of the United Kingdom in 1800 destabilised British public discourse in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Ferris offers the first full-length study of the chief genre to emerge out of the political problem of Union: the national tale, an intercultural and mostly female-authored fictional mode that articulated Irish grievances to English readers. Ferris draws on current theory and archival research to show how the national tale crucially intersected with other public genres such as travel narratives, critical reviews and political discourse. In this fascinating study, Ferris shows how the national tales of Morgan, Edgeworth, Maturin, and the Banim brothers dislodged key British assumptions and foundational narratives of history, family and gender in the period.
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The romantic national tale and the question of Ireland
Ina Ferris examines the way in which the problem of 'incomplete union' generated by the formation of the United Kingdom in 1800 destabilised British public discourse in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Ferris offers the first full-length study of the chief genre to emerge out of the political problem of Union: the national tale, an intercultural and mostly female-authored fictional mode that articulated Irish grievances to English readers. Ferris draws on current theory and archival research to show how the national tale crucially intersected with other public genres such as travel narratives, critical reviews and political discourse. In this fascinating study, Ferris shows how the national tales of Morgan, Edgeworth, Maturin, and the Banim brothers dislodged key British assumptions and foundational narratives of history, family and gender in the period.
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Antiquarian Authorship: D'Israeli's Miscellany of Literary Curiosity and the Question of Secondary Genres
Frequently initiated by booksellers rather than authors, they were understood as contingent and ramshackle collections rather than compositions, modes of lazy and opportunistic publication that exploited the technological power of the press to transfer and reproduce text rather than the mental powers proper to authorship and literary genres.6 As an intervention in public culture, they threatened to strip the book of both its traditional learned aura and its newer authorial identity not just by turning it into a commodity but by eliding the distinction between reading and writing whose centrality to generic hierarchy in the Romantic literary field Lucy Newlyn has recently traced.7 D'Israeli's own literary pragmatics is symptomatic. Other genres of collection such as the pedagogically-minded poetical anthologies directed at schoolboys or middle-class ladies might serve social utility by training inexperienced readers to develop aesthetic taste and literary knowledge, for they were made up of texts \"publicly known and universally celebrated\" (to cite the emphatic phrase of Vicesimus Knox).9 When it came to a collection of heterogeneous \"curiosities,\" however-by definition attached to the odd, obscure and irregular-utility even in the symbolic form of cultural capital for upwardly mobile readers was more elusive.
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Scott’s Authorship and Book Culture
Reviewing an anonymous collection of ballads entitledMinstrelsy of the Scottish Borderin 1803, theMonthly Reviewobserved that its Dedication was signed by one Walter Scott. ‘We have been informed that this gentleman belongs to the Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh and is Deputy Sheriff of the county of Selkirk’, the reviewer reports, evidently regarding the volumes produced by this provincial gentleman as what we would now call a vanity publication. Thus he stresses that the editor has encased negligible local content (‘rude lays of his marauding ancestors’) in a pretentious production featuring ‘a handsome frontispiece, fine cream-coloured paper,
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