书目名称 | The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Three-Volume Novel |
编辑 | Troy J. Bassett |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/919/918715/918715.mp4 |
概述 | Offers a cultural, economic and literary history of the Victorian three-volume novel.Investigates the success of publisher Richard Bentley in producing three-volume novels.Examines the experiences of |
丛书名称 | New Directions in Book History |
图书封面 |  |
描述 | .Utilizing recent developments in book history and digital humanities, this book offers a cultural, economic, and literary history of the Victorian three-volume novel, the prestige format for the British novel during much of the nineteenth century. With the publication of Walter Scott’s popular novels in the 1820s, the three-volume novel became the standard format for new fiction aimed at middle-class audiences through the support of circulating libraries. Following a quantitative analysis examining who wrote and published these novels, the book investigates the success of publisher Richard Bentley in producing three-volume novels, the experiences of the W. H. Smith circulating library in distributing them, the difficulties of authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson and George Moore in writing them, and the resistance of new publishers such as Arrowsmith and Unwin to publishing them. Rather than faltering, the three-volume novel stubbornly endured until its abandonment in the 1890s.. |
出版日期 | Book 2020 |
关键词 | British Novel; Publishing History; Book Trade; Book History; Print Culture; W; H; Smith; Robert Louis Stev |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31926-7 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-31928-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-31926-7Series 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 |