Colour'd Shadows : Contexts in Publishing, Printing, and Reading Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers / by T. Hoagwood, K. Ledbetter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoagwood, Terence Allan, 1952-

Contributor:

Ledbetter, Kathryn, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--19th century.

Literature, Modern.

Communication.

Great Britain--History.

Great Britain.

History, Modern.

European literature.

Language and languages--Style.

Language and languages.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Media and Communication.

History of Britain and Ireland.

Modern History.

European Literature.

Stylistics.

Local Subjects:

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Media and Communication.

History of Britain and Ireland.

Modern History.

European Literature.

Stylistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 198 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed. 2005.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book studies the print culture of the nineteenth century as it shaped the meanings and the cultural significance of literary works by women writers - Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lady Blessington, Lady Morgan, Caroline Norton, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and others. Colour'd Shadows explains and interprets the physical forms of their books, the economics and politics of production and reception, and the cultural meanings of their literary work, showing how poems, literary annuals, engravings, commercial arrangements, the practices of women editors as well as writers, the politics of gender, the changing means of production, and women's literary relationships unfold in the medium of print and, more largely, the rapidly changing culture of the century.

Contents:

Scholarly Fantasy and Material Reality in Mary Robinson's Sappho and Phaon

Ideology and Textuality in Hemans's Records of Woman

Scandal as Commodity and the "Calumniated Woman"

"The Very Roads of Literature": Women Editors of Nineteenth-Century British Literary Annuals

Voluptuous Opportunities: Visual Images in the Keepsake

"The Fate of Woman At Its Root": Elizabeth Barrett's A Drama of Exile and Jean Ingelow's A Story of Doom

"Varied Forms Pass Glitt'ring": Violet Fane's Denzil Place: A Story in Verse.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-192) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-36820-2

9786611368203

1-4039-7953-7

OCLC:

560462245