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1 online resource (269 pages) |
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text file PDF |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Tennyson and Mid-Victorian Publishing; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction: Poetry, Books, and Publishing History; 'Nobody Wants Poetry Now' -- Publishing After the Romantics; Archives and Other Sources; Publishing History; Publishing Strategies: 'Tranching Down' and 'Dressing Up'; Publishing as Cultural Mediation; Notes; 2 Edward Moxon in Context; A Publisher's Education; An Independent Publisher; Friends and Patrons; William Wordsworth; Percy Bysshe Shelley; John Keats; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Thomas Campbell; Publishing Drama; Miscellaneous Works. |
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Cheap EditionsNotes; 3 Tennyson by Numbers: Edward Moxon and the Business of Publishing; Production Costs; Distribution; Advertising; Sales of Tennyson's 1842 Poems; Evolving the Moxon Book; Sales Patterns and Literary Celebrity: The Princess, In Memoriam and Maud and other poems; Idylls of the King, Enoch Arden and A Selection from the Works of Alfred Tennyson; Notes; 4 Publishing Tennyson in America; Payments to Tennyson; Tennyson's Poetical Works as Published by Ticknor and Fields; Dressing Up Tennyson: Ticknor and Fields' Brown Cover; 'Blue and Gold': Tranching Down and Dressing Up; Notes. |
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5 Moxon, Tennyson and the Illustrated BookPublishing without Moxon: Early Illustrated Editions; Edward Moxon and the Illustrated Book; Notes; 6 James Bertrand Payne and the Demise of the Moxon Firm; A Selection from the Works of Alfred Tennyson; The Illustrated Enoch Arden; The Illustrated Idylls of the King; Notes; 7 Fame and its Consequences; The Production of Tennyson's Image; The Old and the New: Photography and Portraiture; Publishing and Portraiture; Notes; 8 Conclusion: Tennyson and the Evolution of Victorian Publishing; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
This book examines how Tennyson's career was mediated, organised and directed by the publishing industry. Founded on neglected archival material, it examines the scale and distribution of Tennyson's book sales in Britain and America, the commercial logic of publishing poetry, and how illustrated gift books and visual culture both promoted and interrogated the Poet Laureate and his life. Major publishers had become disillusioned with poetry by the time that Edward Moxon founded his business in 1830 but by the mid-1860s, his firm presided over a resurgence in poetry based on Tennyson's work. Moxon not only orchestrated Tennyson's rise to fame but was a major influence on how the Victorian public experienced the poetry of the Romantic period. This study reevaluates his crucial role, and examines how he repackaged poetry for the Victorian public. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Moxon, Edward, 1801-1858.
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Moxon, Edward, 1801-1858. |
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Publishers and publishing.
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Publishers and publishing. |
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900. |
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Literary studies: poetry & poets. |
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Literature: history & criticism. |
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cheshire, Jim. Tennyson and Mid-Victorian Publishing : Moxon, Poetry, Commerce. London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, ©2017 9781137338143 |
| ISBN |
9781137338150 (electronic book) |
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1137338156 (electronic book) |
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1137338148 |
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9781137338143 |
| Standard No. |
10.1057/978-1-137-33815-0 |
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