London and the Making of Provincial Literature : : Aesthetics and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1800-1850 / / Joseph Rezek.
In 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 suc...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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
- Acknowledgments