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The 1820s has commonly been overlooked in literary and cultural
studies, seen as a barren interregnum between the achievements of
Romanticism and the Victorian era proper, or, at best, as a time of
transition bridging two major periods of cultural production. This
volume contends that the innovations, fears and experiments of the
1820s are both of considerable interest in themselves and vital for
comprehending how Victorian and Romantic culture wrote and visioned
one another into being. Remediating the 1820s explores the decade's
own sense of itself as a period of expansion in terms of the
projection of British power and knowledge, but also its tremendous
uncertainty about where this left traditional identities and moral
values. In doing so, the collection articulates how specific
novelties, transformations and anxieties of the time remediated and
remade culture and society in manners that continue powerfully to
resonate.
This book explores how authors profited from their writings in the
late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, contending that the
most tangible benefits were social, rather than financial or
aesthetic. It examines authors' interactions with publishers; the
challenges of literary sociability; the vexed construction of
enduring careers; the factors that prevented most aspiring writers
(particularly the less privileged) from accruing significant
rewards; the rhetorical professionalisation of periodicals; and the
manners in which emerging paradigms and technologies catalysed a
belated transformation in how literary writing was consumed and
perceived.
This book explores how authors profited from their writings in the
late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, contending that the
most tangible benefits were social, rather than financial or
aesthetic. It examines authors' interactions with publishers; the
challenges of literary sociability; the vexed construction of
enduring careers; the factors that prevented most aspiring writers
(particularly the less privileged) from accruing significant
rewards; the rhetorical professionalisation of periodicals; and the
manners in which emerging paradigms and technologies catalysed a
belated transformation in how literary writing was consumed and
perceived.
This collection provides students and researchers with a new and
lively understanding of the role of institutions in the production,
reception, and meaning of literature in the period 1700-1900. The
period saw a fundamental transition from a patronage system to a
marketplace in which institutions played an important mediating
role between writers and readers, a shift with consequences that
continue to resonate today. Often producers themselves,
institutions processed and claimed authority over a variety of
cultural domains that never simply tessellated into any unified
system. The collection's primary concerns are British and imperial
environments, with a comparative German case study, but it offers
encouragement for its approaches to be taken up in a variety of
other cultural contexts. From the Post Office to museums, from
bricks and mortar to less tangible institutions like authorship and
genre, this collection opens up a new field for literary studies.
Providing an engaging and accessible introduction to the Fantasy
genre in literature, media and culture, this incisive volume
explores why Fantasy matters in the context of its unique
affordances, its disparate pasts and its extraordinary current
flourishing. It pays especial attention to Fantasy's engagements
with histories and traditions, its manifestations across media and
its dynamic communities. Matthew Sangster covers works ancient and
modern; well-known and obscure; and ranging in scale from brief
poems and stories to sprawling transmedia franchises. Chapters
explore the roles Fantasy plays in negotiating the beliefs we live
by; the iterative processes through which fantasies build, develop
and question; the root traditions that inform and underpin modern
Fantasy; how Fantasy interrogates the preconceptions of realism and
Enlightenment totalisations; the practices, politics and aesthetics
of world-building; and the importance of Fantasy communities for
maintaining the field as a diverse and ever-changing commons.
Providing an engaging and accessible introduction to the Fantasy
genre in literature, media and culture, this incisive volume
explores why Fantasy matters in the context of its unique
affordances, its disparate pasts and its extraordinary current
flourishing. It pays especial attention to Fantasy's engagements
with histories and traditions, its manifestations across media and
its dynamic communities. Matthew Sangster covers works ancient and
modern; well-known and obscure; and ranging in scale from brief
poems and stories to sprawling transmedia franchises. Chapters
explore the roles Fantasy plays in negotiating the beliefs we live
by; the iterative processes through which fantasies build, develop
and question; the root traditions that inform and underpin modern
Fantasy; how Fantasy interrogates the preconceptions of realism and
Enlightenment totalisations; the practices, politics and aesthetics
of world-building; and the importance of Fantasy communities for
maintaining the field as a diverse and ever-changing commons.
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