Edward Lloyd and his world : popular fiction, politics and the press in Victorian Britain / edited by Sarah Louise Lill and Rohan McWilliam.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lill, Sarah Louise, editor.

McWilliam, Rohan, editor.

Series:

ineteenth century (Aldershot, England)

Nineteenth century series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lloyd, E. (Edward), 1815-1890--Influence.

Lloyd, E.

Publishers and publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Publishers and publishing.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"The publisher Edward Lloyd (1815-1890) helped shape Victorian popular culture in ways that have left a legacy that lasts right up to today. He was a major pioneer of both popular fiction and journalism but has never received extended scholarly investigation until now. Lloyd shaped the modern popular press: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper became the first paper to sell over a million copies. Along with publishing songs and broadsides, Lloyd dominated the fiction market in the early Victorian period issuing Gothic stories such as Varney the Vampire (1845-7) and other 'penny dreadfuls', which became bestsellers. Lloyd's publications introduced the enduring figure of Sweeney Todd whilst his authors penned plagiarisms of Dickens's novels, such as Oliver Twiss (1838-9). Many readers in the early Victorian period may have been as likely to have encountered the author of Pickwick in a Lloyd-published plagiarism as in the pages of the original author. This book makes us rethink the early reception of Dickens. In this interdisciplinary collection, leading scholars explore the world of Edward Lloyd and his stable of writers, such as Thomas Peckett Prest and James Malcolm Rymer. The Lloyd brand shaped popular taste in the age of Dickens and the Chartists. Edward Lloyd and his World fills a major gap in the histories of popular fiction and journalism, whilst developing links with Victorian politics, theatre and music"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : Edward Lloyd, eminent Victorian / Sarah Louise Lill and Rohan McWilliam

In for a penny : the business of mass-market publishing 1832-1890 / Sarah Louise Lill

Edward LLoyd and his authors / Helen R. Smith

"I am Ada!" : Edward Lloyd and the creation of the Victorian "penny dreadful" / Louis James

The importance of "phis" : the role of illustration in Lloyd's imitations of Dickens / Ian Haywood

The man who would be Dickens : Thomas Peckett Prest, plagiarist / Adam Abraham

Thomas Peckett Prest and the Denvils : mediating between Edward Lloyd and the stage / Marie Léger-St-John

"Will you walk into the parlour?" : Lloyd's songbook and the domestication of the popular lyric / Brian Maidment

"Nicely boiled and scraped" : medicine, radicalism and the "useful body" in a Lloyd penny blood / Anna Gasperini

Romanticism bites : Quixotic historicism in Rymer and Reynolds / Sara Hackenberg

A radical relationship : Douglas Jerrold and the 'workmen and wages' series in the Lloyd's weekly newspaper / Melissa Score

Sweeney Todd and the chartist gothic : politics and print culture in early Victorian Britain / Rohan McWilliam

Afterword : Edward Lloyd and nineteenth century innovations in printing technology / Matt McKenzie.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-55761-2

0-429-26254-X

0-429-55314-5

9780429262548

OCLC:

1089840101