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Frances Burney’s “Evelina” : The Book, its History, and its Paratext / / by Svetlana Kochkina



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Autore: Kochkina Svetlana Visualizza persona
Titolo: Frances Burney’s “Evelina” : The Book, its History, and its Paratext / / by Svetlana Kochkina Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023
Edizione: 1st ed. 2023.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 pages)
Disciplina: 823.6
Soggetto topico: Literature, Modern - 18th century
Economics and literature
Books - History
Printing
Publishers and publishing
Eighteenth-Century Literature
Literature Business
History of the Book
Printing and Publishing
Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1: Beginnings: Published Wide and Often -- Chapter 2: Books for All Tastes and Wallets -- Chapter 3: Entering the Literary Canon -- Chapter 4: Evelina: The Life in Print -- Chapter 5: Conclusion -- Coda: Digital Afterlife.
Sommario/riassunto: Evelina, the first novel by Frances Burney, published in 1778, enjoys lasting popularity among the reading public. Tracing its publication history through 174 editions, adaptations, and reprints, many of them newly discovered and identified, this book demonstrates how the novel’s material embodiment in the form of the printed book has been reshaped by its publishers, recasting its content for new generations of readers. Four main chapters vividly describe how during 240 years, Evelina, a popular novel of manners, metamorphosed without any significant alterations to its text into a Regency “rambling” text, a romantic novel for “lecteurs délicats,” a cheap imprint for circulating libraries, a yellow-back, a book with a certain aesthetic cachet, a Christmas gift-book, finally becoming an integral part of the established literary canon in annotated scholarly editions. This book also focuses on the remodelling and transformation of the paratext in this novel, written by a woman author, by the heavily male-dominated publishing industry. Shorter Entr’acte sections discuss and describe alterations in the forms of Burney’s name and the title of her work, the omission and renaming of her authorial prefaces, and the redeployment of the publisher’s prefatorial apparatus to support particular editions throughout almost two-and-a-half centuries of the novel’s existence. Illustrated with reproductions of covers, frontispieces, and title pages, the book also provides an illuminating insight into the role of Evelina’s visual representation in its history as a marketable commodity, highlighting the existence of editions targeting various segments of the book market: from the upper-middle-class to mass-readership. The first comprehensive and fully updated bibliography of English and translated editions, adaptations, and reprints of Evelina published in 13 languages and scripts appears in an appendix.
Titolo autorizzato: Frances Burney’s “Evelina”  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9783031177972
9783031177965
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910698651003321
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Serie: New Directions in Book History, . 2634-6125