Overview
- Offers a new perspective on Tennyson’s writing and his relationship with the publishing industry
- Provides a lively and engaging account of the way in which Tennyson harnessed the changes in publishing to his own advantage
- Uses primary source material from the Tennyson Research Centre – one of the first books to do so
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This book examines how Tennyson’s career was mediated, organised and directed by the publishing industry. Founded on neglected archival material, it examines the scale and distribution of Tennyson’s book sales in Britain and America, the commercial logic of publishing poetry, and how illustrated gift books and visual culture both promoted and interrogated the Poet Laureate and his life. Major publishers had become disillusioned with poetry by the time that Edward Moxon founded his business in 1830 but by the mid-1860s, his firm presided over a resurgence in poetry based on Tennyson’s work. Moxon not only orchestrated Tennyson’s rise to fame but was a major influence on how the Victorian public experienced the poetry of the Romantic period. This study reevaluates his crucial role, and examines how he repackaged poetry for the Victorian public.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jim Cheshire is Reader in Cultural History at the University of Lincoln, UK. His research examines the material, literary and visual culture of the nineteenth century. He works on publishing history, literary celebrity, Victorian medievalism, stained glass and Victorian interior design.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tennyson and Mid-Victorian Publishing
Book Subtitle: Moxon, Poetry, Commerce
Authors: Jim Cheshire
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-33815-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-33814-3Published: 24 February 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-33815-0Published: 17 February 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 260
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics, History of the Book