The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel : From Richardson to George Eliot
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'Leah Price has written a very original, imaginative, and compelling book. Who knew that George Eliot was stalked by readers trying to claim credit for writing her novels? Or that Ann Radcliffe introduced the practice of heading chapters with epigraphs? Who has ever noticed that skimming is like abridgement and skipping is like anthologising? Such delectable morsels alone would make this book attractive. When mixed in with its original and imaginative approach to literary history, they make The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel positively irresistible.' Mary Poovey
'Leah Price's study addresses a form of literature which has often been very little regarded or valued: that of the anthology and the abridgement. Price has produced a brilliant analysis of the uses of such volumes and has succeeded in re-casting questions usually ignored in literary criticism.' Gillian Beer
'Where other studies have examined the history of the novel in relation to romance, to the rise of the middle class or to emergent forms of subjectivity 'the discours du jour', Leah Price looks at novels in relation to the history of the book, and to the proliferation of anthologies in particular. It is a refreshing change ... The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel opens with a brilliant consideration of Samuel Richardson's career ... Her book is rich in insights, among the most striking that the process of skimming is like abridging, and that the process of skipping is like anthologising. This observation is delightfully scandalous: very few people, and even fewer academics, ever publicly admit to being bored by long novels, to skimming them, or to skipping to passages which seem more interesting.' Claudia Johnson, London Review of Books
Book Description
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." Covering British novelists from Richardson to George Eliot, this study asks why the epistolary novel disappeared, how the book review emerged, and how editors' reproduction of old texts has shaped authors' production of new ones. This provocative book promises to change the way we think about the future of intellectual property, and the role that anthologies play in the classroom.
The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel : From Richardson to George Eliot
The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel: From Richardson to George Eliot,Leah Price,Cambridge University Press,0521539390,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,British Isles,English,English fiction--18th century--History and criticism,Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries,Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries,Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century
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