The Minerva Press Under William Lane women authors and novel genres, 1782-1802 Eve Tavor Bannet

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bannet, Eve Tavor, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lane, William, -1814.

Minerva Press.

English fiction.

English fiction--Women authors.

Women in literature.

Fiction--Publishing.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2026

Summary:

"During the Minerva Press's heyday, founder William Lane published in an extraordinary range of genres. Following the original organizational taxonomy that Lane used in his own promotional materials, Eve Tavor Bannet here explores each: Historical fiction, Terror and Mystery Fiction ('Gothic'), Fairy Tales, Tales of the Times, National Tales, Wanderers Tales, Novels of Education, Female Biography and Marital Domestic Fiction. In providing the first modern analysis of the majority of texts that Lane published, she reveals how the Minerva Press bridged the gap between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fiction and sheds light on how contemporary methods of imitative writing produced its characteristically fluid, hybrid and modular fictions. These characteristics, she demonstrates, enabled its women authors to converse with one another, intervening in key contemporary political, cultural and domestic debates and earned many well-deserved popularity and praise from those judging by the pre-Romantic methods of evaluation in use"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

Introduction : Lane’s Press

Introducing generic labels, imitative methods

Minerva historicals; or “The warning voice”

Minerva terror and mystery; or “Unaccountable occurrences”

Minerva fairy tales; or “Wonders” and “Everyday miracles”

Minerva tales of the times; or “The prevailing”

Minerva regionals; or “The virtues, the graces… our nation boasts”

Minerva’s domestic-provincials; or “Persevere in virtue, and you will be happy”

Conclusion : “Fame is fame”

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed April 20, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Bannet, Eve Tavor, 1947- Minerva Press Under William Lane

ISBN:

9781009728386

1009728385

OCLC:

1548605905

Access Restriction:

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