Of all the great novelists of the Romantic period, only two, Jane
Austen and Walter Scott, have been continuously reprinted, admired,
argued about, and read, from the moment their works first appeared
until the present day. In a pioneering study, Annika Bautz traces
how Scott's nineteenth-century success among all classes of readers
made him the most admired and most widely read novelist in history,
only for his readership to plummet sharply downwards in the
twentieth century. Austen's popularity, by contrast, has risen
inexorably, overtaking Scott's, and bringing about a reversal in
reputation that would have been unthinkable in the authors' own
time. To assess the reactions of readers belonging to diverse
interpretative communities, Bautz draws on a wide range of
indicators, including editions, publisher's relaunches, sales,
reviews, library catalogues and lending figures, private comments
in diaries and letters, popularisations. She maps out the long-run
changes in the reception of each author over two centuries,
explaining literary tastes and their determinants, and illuminating
the broader culture of the successive reading audiences who gave
both authors their uninterrupted loyalty. The first ever
comparative longitudinal study, firmly based on empirical and
archival evidence, this book will be of interest to scholars in
Romanticism, Victorianism, book history, reading and reception
studies, and cultural history.
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