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Forget me not : the rise of the British literary annual, 1823-1835 / Katherine D. Harris.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harris, Katherine D., author.
- Series:
- Series in Victorian Studies
- Series inVictorian Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century.
- English literature.
- Gift books--Great Britain.
- Gift books.
- Femininity in literature.
- Art, Victorian.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (411 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- By November 1822, the British reading public had already voraciously consumed both Walter Scott's expensive novels and Rudolf Ackermann's exquisite lithographs. The next decade, referred to by some scholars as dormant and unproductive, is in fact bursting with Forget Me Nots, Friendship's Offerings, Keepsakes, and Literary Souvenirs. By wrapping literature, poetry, and art into an alluring package, editors and publishers saturated the market with a new, popular, and best-selling genre, the literary annual. In Forget Me Not, Katherine D. Harris assesses the phenomenal rise of the annual and it
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: British Ingenuity from German Invention- The Legacy of Rudolph Ackermann; 2: A Family History of Albums, Anthologies, Almanacs, and Emblems; 3: The First Generation's Success- Forget Me Not, Friendship's Offering, and The Literary Souvenir; 4: Second-Generation Annuals- A Ballroom Filled with Debutants and Comedians, The Keepsake and The Comic Annual; 5: The Artistic Influence of the Annual's Engraving "Copyists"; 6: Accumulating Profits or Constructing Taste- Editorial Control of the Literary Annuals
- 7: Feminizing the Textual Body- Women and Their Literary Annuals in Nineteenth-Century Britain Conclusion: The Literary Annual's Evolution from Nineteenth-Century Gothic to Twentieth-Century Homage; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8214-4520-0
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