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"An Established and Permanent Popularity": The Making of Collected Editions in the Late Romantic Period
"An Established and Permanent Popularity": The Making of Collected Editions in the Late Romantic Period
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202104726
- ISBN
- 9798293890330
- DDC
- 820
- 저자명
- Culver, Jeremy.
- 서명/저자
- An Established and Permanent Popularity: The Making of Collected Editions in the Late Romantic Period
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : New York University, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 310 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-03, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: McLane, Maureen.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Collected editions, traditionally, have been held as monuments of cultural achievement that metonymically signify a distinguished or would-be-distinguished career; what I argue is that, like monuments, these collected editions should be examined as distinct works of art. In this sense, the book as an object remains first and foremost an expression of its own time. Collected editions, then, are overlooked nexus points of literary culture and technological innovation-instances in which authors and writings from the past are reconfigured to be sold to the present in order to perpetuate an image into the future. These categories are reciprocal: recognizable names imbue an edition with a sense of familiarity amidst innovation in design and format, while new features provide incentives for consumers to purchase previously available materials. By depicting the methods through which writers are reconfigured in such editions, I assert that collected editions are a critical genre in the development of nineteenth-century literature. This innovation is best seen in works from the 1820s and 30s, a time often characterized as an in-between period of English literature-too late to be Romantic, too early to be Victorian. Yet, this was also a time of intense technological change-as the nascent industrial revolution reached the book trade-and intense literary creativity. These two factors in combination led to remarkable progress in the collected edition. In my work, I navigate the competing interests of publishers, spouses, friends, and enemies through four significant editions produced during this period: The Waverley Novels of Walter Scott, edited by the author and published by Robert Cadell, 1829-1834; The Life and Works of Lord Byron, edited by John Wright and published by John Murray, 1832-1834; Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Mary Shelley and published by John Hunt, 1824; and The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Mrs. [Mary] Shelley and published by Edward Moxon, 1839. When analyzed together, these works reveal how the collected editions of an under-analyzed era reshaped the narratives of some of its most significant writers. Collected editions, by definition, occupy a transitional period for artists-the conclusion and packaging of a distinct chapter of an individual's history. What I argue is that this effect lives on long after the artists themselves are gone.
- 일반주제명
- English literature
- 일반주제명
- Education history
- 일반주제명
- Romance literature
- 일반주제명
- Literature
- 키워드
- Book history
- 키워드
- Romanticism
- 키워드
- Romantic period
- 기타저자
- New York University English
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-03A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■650 4▼aRomance literature
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■653 ▼aRomantic period
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