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The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Three-Volume Novel

The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Three-Volume Novel

Bassett, Troy J.

Paperback

Series: New Directions in Book History

Literary CriticismBritish History

ISBN10: 3030319288
ISBN13: 9783030319281
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Aug 26 2021
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Utilizing recent developments in book history and digital humanities, this book offers a cultural, economic, and literary history of the Victorian three-volume novel, the prestige format for the British novel during much of the nineteenth century. With the publication of Walter Scott's popular novels in the 1820s, the three-volume novel became the standard format for new fiction aimed at middle-class audiences through the support of circulating libraries. Following a quantitative analysis examining who wrote and published these novels, the book investigates the success of publisher Richard Bentley in producing three-volume novels, the experiences of the W. H. Smith circulating library in distributing them, the difficulties of authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson and George Moore in writing them, and the resistance of new publishers such as Arrowsmith and Unwin to publishing them. Rather than faltering, the three-volume novel stubbornly endured until its abandonment in the 1890s.

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