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Minerva's Gothics - The Politics and Poetics of Romantic Exchange, 1780-1820 (Hardcover)
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Minerva's Gothics - The Politics and Poetics of Romantic Exchange, 1780-1820 (Hardcover)
Series: Gothic Literary Studies
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Between 1790 and 1820, William Lane's Minerva Press published an
unprecedented number of circulating-library novels by obscure
female authors. Because these novels catered to the day's fashion
for sentimental themes and Gothic romance, they were and continue
to be generally dismissed as ephemera. Recently, however, scholars
interested in historicizing Romantic conceptions of genius and
authorship have begun to write Minerva back into literary history.
By making Minerva novels themselves the centre of the analysis,
Minerva's Gothics illustrates how Romantic 'anxiety' is better
conceptualized as a mutual though not entirely equitable
'exchange', a dynamic interrelationship between Minerva novels and
Romantic-era politics and poetics that started in 1780, when Lane
began publishing novels with some regularity. Reading Minerva
novels for their shared popular conventions demonstrates that
circulating-library novelists collectively recirculate, engage and
modify commonplaces about women's nature, the social order and,
most importantly, the very Romantic redefinitions of authorship and
literature that render their novels not worth reading. By
recognizing Minerva's collaborative rather than merely derivative
authorial model, a forgotten pathway is restored between
first-generation Romantic reactions to popular print culture and
Percy Shelley's influential conceptualization of the poet in A
Defence of Poetry.
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