Authorship, Commerce and the Public

PAUL CHIRICO Director of Studies in English, Jesus College, CambridgeWILLIAM CHRISTIE Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of SydneyBENJAMIN COLBERT Senior Lecturer in English, University of WolverhamptonPAULA R. FELDMAN C. Wallace Martin Chair in English, University of South CarolinaMICHAEL J. FRANKLIN Research Fellow, English Department, University of Wales, AberystwythROBERT W. JONES Lecturer, School of English, University of LeedsPAUL KEEN Associate Professor of English, Carleton University, Ottawa, CanadaCLAIRE LAMONT Professor of English Romantic Literature, University of NewcastleDOUGLAS S. MACK Professor, Department of English Studies, University of StirlingPAM PERKINS Associate Professor, Department of English, University of ManitobaSARA SALIH Lecturer in English, University of Kent, CanterburyCHRISTOPHER SKELTON-FOORD Reading Rooms and Information Services Manager, The British Library Newspaper Library, LondonJUDITH STODDART Associate Professor of English, Michigan State University

• List of Tables List of Plates Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: P.Garside, E.J.Clery & C.Franklin PART I: AUTHORSHIP Anne Grant and the Professionalization of Privacy; P.Perkins Women Poets and Anonymity in the Romantic Era; P.R.Feldman Walter Scott: Anonymity and the Unmasking of the Harlequin; C.Lamont James Hogg and his Publishers: The Queen's Wake and Queen Hynde; D.S.Mack Author and Community: John Clare and John Taylor; P.Chirico PART II: COMMERCE Eliza Haywood and the Discourse of Taste; R.W.Jones Camilla in the Market Place: Moral Marketing and Feminist Editing in 1796 and 1802; S.Salih Economics, Expertise, Enterprise and the Literary Scene: The Commercial Management Ethos in British Circulating Libraries; C.Skelton-Foord Popular Romanticism?: Publishing, Readership and the Making of Literary History; B.Colbert PART III: THE PUBIC Cultures of Print: Mass Markets and Theories of the Liberal Public Sphere; J.Stoddart 'The Hastings Circle': Writers and Writing in Calcutta in the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century; M.J.Franklin A 'Memorable Grave': The Abject Subtext of Charles Lloyd's Edmund Oliver; P.Keen State Patronage and the Romantic Writer: Henry Taylor's Modest Proposal; W.Christie Index

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