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Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices »

Authors: John O. Jordan (Editor), Gillian Beer (Editor), Robert L. Patten
ISBN-13: 9780521893930, ISBN-10: 0521893933
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: July 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

This collection of essays examines cultural and literary issues in nineteenth-century book production and circulation.

	List of illustrations
	List of tables
	List of contributors
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction: publishing history as hypertext	1
2	Some trends in British book production, 1800-1919	19
3	Wordsworth in the Keepsake, 1829	44
4	Copyright and the publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900	74
5	Sam Weller's valentine	93
6	Serialized retrospection in The Pickwick Papers	123
7	Textual/sexual pleasure and serial publication	143
8	The disease of reading and Victorian periodicals	165
9	How historians study reader response: or, what did Jo think of Bleak House?	195
10	Dickens in the visual market	213
11	Male pseudonyms and female authority in Victorian England	250
12	A bibliographical approach to Victorian publishing	269
13	The "wicked Westminster," the Fortnightly, and Walter Pater's Renaissance	289
14	Serial fiction in Australian colonial newspapers	306
	Index	325