Gothic Print Culture, 1789-1900

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Volume II: Chapbooks

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av Jennifer Camden, JoEllen DeLucia, Joellen Delucia

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The second volume of Gothic Print Culture, 1789-1900 reprints Gothic chapbooks. These shorter and cheaper pamphlets capitalized on the Gothic’s popularity and were marketed to working-class audiences. Chapbook publishers such as Ann Lemoine and Thomas Tegg took advantage of copyright law’s failure to address formats beyond the book in order to abridge, excerpt and adapt versions of popular novels and dramas, particularly works by Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis. By commissioning elaborate frontispieces for almost all Gothic chapbooks, publishers also pioneered a visual language for the Gothic. Although many chapbooks were published anonymously, prolific chapbook writers, such as Isaac Crookenden and Sarah Wilkinson, have been dismissed as hacks because of their reliance on Gothic formulas and practices of adaptation. The Gothic chapbooks included in this volume challenge the marginalization of chapbook writers and publishers and frame the interplay between original and adaptation as central to studies of not only the chapbook form but also the Gothic itself.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-03
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt453 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor430
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367649593

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Jennifer Camden is the Beverley J. Pitts Distinguished Professor of the Ron and Laura Strain Honors College and Associate Chair and Professor of English at University of Indianapolis. She is the author of Secondary Heroines in the Nineteenth-Century British and American Novel (Routledge, 2010) and, with Kate Faber Oestreich, Transmedia Storytelling: Pemberley Digital’s Adaptations of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley (Cambridge Scholars, 2018), as well as articles on women writers and gothic fiction.JoEllen DeLucia is Professor of English at Central Michigan University. She is the author of A Feminine Enlightenment: British Women Writers and the Philosophy of Progress, 1759-1820 (EUP, 2015), in addition to articles on women writes, moral philosophy, and gothic fiction published in Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Women Writers, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, and European Romantic Review. Most recently, she edited with Juliet Shields Migration and Modernities: The State of Being Stateless, 1750-1850 (EUP, 2019).