The history of Gothic publishing, 1800-1835
Subtitle: exhuming the trade
By: Franz J. Potter.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Horror tales -- Publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Literature publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Horror tales, English -- History and criticism.; Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain.
Description: "The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835: Exhuming the Trade breaks new ground by challenging the canon-making process of the Gothic romance genre and takes a closer look at the trade Gothic: 'below' and 'after' the canonical Gothic (1764-1820) from circulating libraries to Gothic chapbooks and from the Gothic in periodicals to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818). Challenging the critical assumptions which have marginalized the illegitimate and disreputable trade Gothic, The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835: Exhuming the Trade explores the lives and works of hack novelists that made Gothic fiction prominent in the 1820s and 1830s such as Francis Lathom, Sarah Wilkinson and William Child Green, whose novels lined the shelves of the circulating libraries.

To better understand the entire Gothic genre we have to view the good novels with the awful, the canon and the trade; we need to lower our sights."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.