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The anthology and the rise of the novel : from Richardson to George Eliot

Author: Leah Price
Publisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel 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  Read more...
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Named Person: Samuel Richardson; George Eliot; Samuel Richardson; George Eliot; Samuel Richardson; George Eliot; George Eliot; Samuel Richardson
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Leah Price
ISBN: 0521782082 9780521782081
OCLC Number: 42980142
Description: vii, 224 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Richardson's economies of scale --
Cultures of the commonplace --
Knox's Scissor-Doings --
George Elliot and the production of consumers.
Responsibility: Leah Price.
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Abstract:

"The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel 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 marketed their books to women while Victorian publishers repackaged them for men, and how editors' reproduction of old texts has shaped authors' production of new ones. This book 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."--Jacket.

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