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- Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Minerva’s Writers and Reviewers
- Chapter 2 Godwin, Bage, Parsons, and Novels as They Are
- Chapter 3 Imitating Ann Radcliffe
- Chapter 4 Hannah More’s Cœlebs and the Novel of the Moment
- Chapter 5 Fiction as Fashion from Belinda to Miss Byron
- Chapter 6 Walter Scott’s Industrial Antiques
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Epilogue
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2023
- Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Minerva’s Writers and Reviewers
- Chapter 2 Godwin, Bage, Parsons, and Novels as They Are
- Chapter 3 Imitating Ann Radcliffe
- Chapter 4 Hannah More’s Cœlebs and the Novel of the Moment
- Chapter 5 Fiction as Fashion from Belinda to Miss Byron
- Chapter 6 Walter Scott’s Industrial Antiques
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Summary
The Minerva Press brand was officially retired in 1820, but its reputation, influence, and significance as an avatar of literary excess persisted long past that end-point. Not only did its erstwhile publisher, A. K. Newman, continue a robust publishing business under his own name in the same premises for more than a decade, but derogatory references to the Press in popular media continued to rise in the decade following its demise. The epilogue begins with an account of the last two Minerva novels, belatedly published in 1821, and traces the press’s influence from them through its reputation in the 1830s and 1840s, concluding with a discussion of the fate of these countless works, long unwanted by copyright libraries, and an account of the publisher Henry Colburn, whose large-scale publishing business attracted many of the same criticisms in the 1820s and 1830s as Lane and Newman’s had done at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The epilogue concludes in the present day, examining recent reappearances of the Minerva Press in historical romance novels and exploring the affinities between popular fiction then and now.
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- Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era , pp. 196 - 210Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023