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Authors: Franz J. Potter
ISBN-13: 9781403995827, ISBN-10: 1403995826
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: December 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Franz J. Potter

Book Synopsis

To better understand and contextualise the twilight of the Gothic genre during the 1920s and 1830s, The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835: Exhuming the Trade examines the disreputable aspects of the Gothic trade from its horrid bluebooks to the desperate hack writers who created the short tales of terror. From the Gothic publishers to the circulating libraries, this study explores the conflict between the canon and the twilight, and between the disreputable and the moral.

Table of Contents

1Literary rubbish1
2The circulating library14
3Literary mushrooms : the gothic bluebook37
4Ghosts, spectres and phantoms : recycling the gothic in periodicals and anthologies77
5Morality and blood : William Child Green97
6The romance of real life : Sarah Wilkinson109
7The business of morality : Francis Lathom131
8The monster of morality : Mary Shelley145
App. 1Gothic novels, 1800-1834152
App. 2Gothic bluebooks, 1799-1835166
App. 3Gothic tales, 1800-1834179

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