Title: Minerva's gothics : the politics and poetics of Romantic exchange, 1780-1820 /
Authors: Neiman, Elizabeth A.
Year: 2019
Subjects: Minerva Press; Minerva Press; Minerva Press; Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English History and criticism.; English fiction Women authors History and criticism; English fiction History and criticism; English fiction History and criticism; English fiction; English fiction Women authors; Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English; Frauenliteratur; Romantik; Literaturproduktion; 18.05 English literature.
Abstract: Between 1790 and 1820, William Lane&#x2019;s Minerva Press published an unprecedented number of new novels by female authors. Reading these novels for their shared popular conventions demonstrates that circulating-library novelists collectively recirculate, engage and modify commonplaces about women&#x2019;s nature, the social order and, most importantly, the very same Romantic redefinitions of literature that still render their novels not worth reading. Elizabeth Neiman&#x2019;s analysis shows that Minerva novelists write and authorize a collaborative authorial model, and that this model reverberates in Romantic poetics&#x2014;most notably, Percy Shelley&#x2019;s portrayal of the idealized poet in A Defence of Poetry.