| 书目名称 | Frances Burney’s “Evelina” | | 副标题 | The Book, its Histor | | 编辑 | Svetlana Kochkina | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Traces the publication history of Burney’s first and most successful novel from 1778 to the present.Examines the evolution of paratextual apparatus and its role in shaping readers’ experience and book | | 丛书名称 | New Directions in Book History | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .Evelina., the first novel by Frances Burney, published in 1778, enjoys lasting popularity among the reading public. Tracing its publication history through 174 editions, adaptations, and reprints, many of them newly discovered and identified, this book demonstrates how the novel’s material embodiment in the form of the printed book has been reshaped by its publishers, recasting its content for new generations of readers. Four main chapters vividly describe how during 240 years, .Evelina., a popular novel of manners, metamorphosed without any significant alterations to its text into a Regency “rambling” text, a romantic novel for “.lecteurs délicats,”. a cheap imprint for circulating libraries, a yellow-back, a book with a certain aesthetic cachet, a Christmas gift-book, finally becoming an integral part of the established literary canon in annotated scholarly editions. This book also focuses on the remodelling and transformation of the paratext in this novel, writtenby a woman author, by the heavily male-dominated publishing industry. Shorter Entr’acte sections discuss and describe alterations in the forms of Burney’s name and the title of her work, the omission and renaming of he | | 出版日期 | Book 2023 | | 关键词 | book history; publication history; women‘s writing; enlightenment literature; publishing industry; biblio | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17797-2 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-17799-6 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-17797-2Series ISSN 2634-6117 Series E-ISSN 2634-6125 | | issn_series | 2634-6117 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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