LEADER 03860oam 2200613 c 450 001 9910789679903321 005 20200115203623.0 010 $a1-4742-1154-2 010 $a1-283-20256-5 010 $a9786613202567 010 $a1-4411-0858-0 024 7 $a10.5040/9781474211543 035 $a(CKB)2670000000106511 035 $a(EBL)742520 035 $a(OCoLC)741690115 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000525239 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11391160 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525239 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10488905 035 $a(PQKB)10925269 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC742520 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL742520 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10866870 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL320256 035 $a(OCoLC)893335580 035 $a(OCoLC)1138648285 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09257464 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000106511 100 $a20070914d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe reception of Jane Austen and Walter Scott $ea comparative longitudinal study $fAnnika Bautz 210 1$aLondon $aNew York $cContinuum $d2007. 215 $a1 online resource (209 p.) 225 0 $aContinuum reception studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8264-9546-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [183]-194) and index 327 $aIntroduction -- Part I: The Contemporary Response, 1811-1818 -- 1. Reviewing in the Romantic Period -- 2. Austen and Scott Reviewed, 1812 - 1818 -- 3. Private Readers' Responses in Letters and Diaries, 1811 - 1818 -- Part II: The Victorian Response -- 4. Editions, 1832 - 1912 -- 5. Library Catalogues, 1832 -1912 -- 6. Victorian Reviews and Criticism, 1865 - 1880 -- Part III: The Later-twentieth-century Response -- 7. Editions, 1913 - 2003 -- 8. Media reception and cultural status, 1900 - 2003 -- 6. Critical reception, 1960 - 2003 -- Retrospect -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- 330 8 $a Of all the great novelists of the Romantic period, only two, Jane Austen and Walter Scott, have been continuously reprinted, admired, argued about, and read, from the moment their works first appeared until the present day.  In a pioneering study, Annika Bautz traces how Scott's nineteenth-century success among all classes of readers made him the most admired and most widely read novelist in history, only for his readership to plummet sharply downwards in the twentieth century. Austen's popularity, by contrast, has risen inexorably, overtaking Scott's, and bringing about a reversal in reputation that would have been unthinkable in the authors' own time. To assess the reactions of readers belonging to diverse interpretative communities, Bautz draws on a wide range of indicators, including editions, publisher's relaunches, sales, reviews, library catalogues and lending figures, private comments in diaries and letters, popularisations. She maps out the long-run changes in the reception of each author over two centuries, explaining literary tastes and their determinants, and illuminating the broader culture of the successive reading audiences who gave both authors their uninterrupted loyalty. The first ever comparative longitudinal study, firmly based on empirical and archival evidence, this book will be of interest to scholars in Romanticism, Victorianism, book history, reading and reception studies, and cultural history. 410 0$aContinuum reception studies series. 606 $2Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 676 $a823.709 700 $aBautz$b Annika$01565485 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789679903321 996 $aThe reception of Jane Austen and Walter Scott$93835218 997 $aUNINA