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In the first half of the nineteenth century, technological developments in printing led to the industrialization of English publishing, made books and periodicals affordable to many new readers, and changed the market for literature. In The Economy of Literary Form Lee Erickson analyzes the effects on literature as authors and publishers responded to the new demands of a rapidly expanding literary marketplace.
These developments, Erickson argues, offer a new understanding of the differences between Romantic and Victorian literature. As publishing became more profitable, authors were able to devote themselves more professionally to their writing. The changing market for literature also affected the relative cultural status of literary forms. As poetry became less profitable, it became more difficult to publish.
As periodicals grew in popularity, essays became the center of reviews, and their authors the arbiters of culture. The novel, which had long sold chiefly to circulating libraries, found an outlet in magazine serialization - and novelists discovered a new popular audience.
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With chapters on William Wordsworth, Thomas Carlyle, and Jane Austen, as well as on specific literary genres, The Economy of Literary Form provides a significant new synthesis of recent publishing history which helps to explain the differences and continuities between Romantic and Victorian literature.
It will be of interest not only to literary critics and historians but also to bibliographic historians, cultural or economic historians, and all who have an interest in the commercialization of English publishing in the nineteenth century.
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Authors and publishers, Authors and readers, Authorship, Economic aspects, Economic aspects of Authorship, Economic aspects of Literature publishing, English literature, History, History and criticism, Intellectual life, Literary form, Literature and society, Literature publishing, Printing, English literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Printing, history, London (england), intellectual life, Littérature anglaise, Histoire et critique, Littérature, Édition, Aspect économique, Histoire, Écrivains et éditeurs, Écrivains et lecteurs, Art d'écrire, Littérature et société, Imprimerie, Genres littéraires, Vie intellectuelle, Letterkunde, Engels, Uitgeven, Massaproductie, Boekdrukkunst, Literatura inglesa (história e crítica), Publishers and publishing, historyPlaces
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The Economy of Literary Form: English Literature and the Industrialization of Publishing, 1800-1850
March 3, 2000, The Johns Hopkins University Press
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The economy of literary form: English literature and the industrialization of publishing, 1800-1850
1996, Johns Hopkins University Press
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The Economy of Literary Form: English Literature and the Industrialization of Publishing, 1800-1850
December 1, 1995, The Johns Hopkins University Press
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