05415nam 2200841 450 991079734730332120210510212702.00-8122-9162-X10.9783/9780812291629(CKB)3710000000445703(EBL)3442546(SSID)ssj0001522885(PQKBManifestationID)11827473(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001522885(PQKBWorkID)11465661(PQKB)11675250(OCoLC)913697479(MdBmJHUP)muse46660(DE-B1597)452777(DE-B1597)9780812291629(Au-PeEL)EBL3442546(CaPaEBR)ebr11076443(CaONFJC)MIL811329(MiAaPQ)EBC3442546(EXLCZ)99371000000044570320150723h20152015 uy 1engur|nu---|u||utxtccrLondon and the making of provincial literature aesthetics and the transatlantic book trade, 1800-1850 /Joseph RezekPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :University of Pennsylvania Press,2015.©20151 online resource (295 p.)Material TextsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8122-4734-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction --Chapter 1. London and the Transatlantic Book Trade --Chapter 2. Furious Booksellers and the “American Copy” of the Waverley Novels --Chapter 3. The Irish National tale and the aesthetics of Union --Chapter 4. Washington Irving’s transatlantic revisions --Chapter 5. The Effects of Provinciality in Cooper and Scott --Chapter 6. Rivalry with England in the Age of Nationalism --Epilogue. The Scarlet Letter and the Decline of London --Appendix. The London Republication of American Fiction, 1797–1832 --Notes --Bibliography --Index --AcknowledgmentsIn the early nineteenth century, London publishers dominated the transatlantic book trade. No one felt this more keenly than authors from Ireland, Scotland, and the United States who struggled to establish their own national literary traditions while publishing in the English metropolis. Authors such as Maria Edgeworth, Sydney Owenson, Walter Scott, Washington Irving, and James Fenimore Cooper devised a range of strategies to transcend the national rivalries of the literary field. By writing prefaces and footnotes addressed to a foreign audience, revising texts specifically for London markets, and celebrating national particularity, provincial authors appealed to English readers with idealistic stories of cross-cultural communion. From within the messy and uneven marketplace for books, Joseph Rezek argues, provincial authors sought to exalt and purify literary exchange. In so doing, they helped shape the Romantic-era belief that literature inhabits an autonomous sphere in society. London and the Making of Provincial Literature tells an ambitious story about the mutual entanglement of the history of books and the history of aesthetics in the first three decades of the nineteenth century. Situated between local literary scenes and a distant cultural capital, enterprising provincial authors and publishers worked to maximize success in London and to burnish their reputations and build their industry at home. Examining the production of books and the circulation of material texts between London and the provincial centers of Dublin, Edinburgh, and Philadelphia, Rezek claims that the publishing vortex of London inspired a dynamic array of economic and aesthetic practices that shaped an era in literary history.Material texts.English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismBook industries and tradeEnglandLondonHistory19th centuryBook industries and tradeUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAmerican fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismIrish fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismScottish fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fictionIrish authors19th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fictionScottish authors19th centuryHistory and criticismNational characteristics in literatureLiteratureAestheticsCultural Studies.Literature.English fictionHistory and criticism.Book industries and tradeHistoryBook industries and tradeHistoryAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Irish fictionHistory and criticism.Scottish fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionIrish authorsHistory and criticism.English fictionScottish authorsHistory and criticism.National characteristics in literature.LiteratureAesthetics.820.9/007Rezek Joseph1555831MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797347303321London and the making of provincial literature3818053UNINA