| Reviews |
| - 'This book was meant to be the standard on its subject, and it deserves that distinction. Usage over time will test its transmitted data against the ideal of absolute accuracy, but the sheer abundance of its information and the evident integrity and care with which it was produced give this bibliography the character of utter authoritativeness.' - The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual
- 'This is a most generous bibliography ... the user ultimately is impressed by its plenitude and senses that great attention was given to anticipating the needs and interests of those who would be consulting it.' - The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual
- 'The listing produced by Raven, Forster, and Bending is a model of thoroughness and clarity.' - The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual
- 'The sheer density of the book is impressive. No page of it seems to have been touched by a purpose which might have seemed frivolous.' - The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual
- '... the nearest thing to a complete listing we have for any period before the twentieth century ... certainly the most scrupulous ... magnificant bibliography.' - John Sutherland, Times Literary Supplement
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| Description | | - The first extensive bibliography of its kind for the late eighteenth century and Romantic period.
- Full information about authorship, publication, reviewing, and surviving copies.
- Introductory essay offers an entirely new survey of popular novels of the period.
| This historical bibliography provides an entirely new foundation for the literary history of the late eighteenth century and the Romantic age. Offering a fresh assessment of the work of all novelists of the period, the two volumes address problems faced by generations of literary scholars and historians concerned with the development of the English novel.
This first volume records full
details of all known prose novels in English first published in the British Isles in the final three decades of the eighteenth century. They include many new discoveries, attributions to an extraordinary range of novelists and the first English translations of much Continental popular fiction. The bibliography firmly establishes publication details for many novels now apparently without any extant
copies.
A leading feature of the bibliography is its examination of a copy of every identified surviving novel. Research by James Raven, Antonia Forster, and many other international collaborators, has allowed a reconstruction of the full cast of British novelists of the period, their publishers and reviewers. A full transcription of titles and imprint lines is given, together with much other
bibliographical and historical information, including contemporary reviews (with generous quotation), dedications, and pricing and printing details. Shelf-mark, microform and other library references assist readers to consult the surviving novels in modern library and research collections all over the world.
In an introductory historical essay, James Raven considers the different themes
embraced by the novel, profiles of popular authorship, translation, the economics and circumstances of novel production and design, and the scope of literary circulation and reception. By revisiting this history of the novel, identifying rare books now scattered across the world, and reconstructing the history of popular literature now lost, the volume challenges existing literary canons and
refines our understanding of the range of imaginative writing and authorship in a critical period of English literature. |
Readership: English Literature academics, book historians, antiquarian booksellers, cultural historians, libraries.
| Contents |
General Introduction
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Peter Garside, James Raven, and Rainer Schöwerling
Historical Introduction: The Novel Comes of Age
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James Raven
An Historical Bibliography of Prose Novels in English First Published in the British Isles 1770-1799
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James Raven with Antonia Forster and Stephen Bending
Appendices
Index of Authors
Index of Titles
Index of Publishers, Booksellers and Printers
Notes
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
James Raven, University Lecturer in Modern History, University of Oxford and Fellow, Mansfield College, Oxford and
Antonia Forster
With the assistance of Steven Bending
General Editors: Peter Garside,
James Raven, and
Rainer Schöwerling
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