Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797–1830 (eBook)

Franz J. Potter (Autor)

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2021
240 Seiten
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78683-672-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The Gothic Chapbook, Bluebook, and Shilling Shocker surveys the rise of the short tale of terror and horror at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

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This study breaks new ground surveying the origins of the Gothic chapbook, its publishers and authors, in order to establish conclusively the impact these pamphlets had on the development of the Gothic genre. Considered the illegitimate offspring of the Gothic novel, the lowly chapbook flooded the market in the late eighteenth century, creating a separate and distinct secondary market for tales of terror. The trade was driven by a handful of individuals who were booksellers and dealers, circulating library proprietors, stationers, and small publishers – what they produced were more than four hundred chapbooks, bluebooks and shilling shockers containing Gothic tales from magazines, redactions of popular novels, extractions of entire inset tales, and original tales of terror. This book responds to the urgent and pressing need to contextualise the Gothic chapbook in ascertaining a more concise and comprehensive view of the entire Gothic genre.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers
2The Rise of the Gothic Chapbook: Simon Fisher, Thomas Hurst and The Monk, 1797–1801
3The Art of Marketing: Ann Lemoine and John Roe
4The Golden Age of the Shilling Shocker: Thomas Tegg and the Chapbook Magazines
5The Profiteers: Isaac Crookenden and Sarah Wilkinson
6The Decline of the Gothic Pamphlet
Notes
Appendix: Gothic Pamphlets
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.1.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Gothic Literary Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Gothic Literary Studies
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: – • 1797–1830 • Bluebooks • Chapbooks • Franz • Gothic • J • Potter • Shilling • shockers
• ISBN-10: 1-78683-672-6 / 1786836726
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78683-672-4 / 9781786836724