Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel - Authorship From Manuscript to Print

Analyzes novel manuscripts and authors' revisions to construct a new narrative about eighteenth-century authorship, influenced by the networks in which writers lived and worked. Will appeal to researchers, scholars and students interested in eighteenth-century literature, the English novel, and the history of the book, of publishing, and of reading.

List of contents

1. Samuel Richardson: 'fan fiction' and networked authorship; 2. Frances Burney: obliterations and unending revisions; 3. Jane Austen: revision as empowerment; 4. Maria Edgeworth: scientific knowledge, didactic moralism, and her 'family jury of critics'.

About the author

Hilary Havens is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. She is the editor of Didactic Novels and British Women's Writing, 1790–1820 (2017), and co-editor of the correspondence of Samuel Richardson and Edward Young, which will be published in The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson (Cambridge, forthcoming).

Summary

Analyzes novel manuscripts and authors' revisions to construct a new narrative about eighteenth-century authorship, influenced by the networks in which writers lived and worked. Will appeal to researchers, scholars and students interested in eighteenth-century literature, the English novel, and the history of the book, of publishing, and of reading.

Additional text

'With careful structuring, and a mostly lucid style, this industrious book claims new insights into the 'networks' that, via Bruno Latour, are already well established as significant in this field.' Min Wild, Times Literary Supplement

Product details

• Authors: Hilary Havens, Hilary (University of Tennessee Havens, Havens Hilary
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781108725613
• ISBN: 978-1-108-72561-3
• No. of pages: 242
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Publishing industry & book trade, Publishing and book trade