Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900

Hardback

Main Details

Title Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Jon Mee
Edited by Matthew Sangster
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:316
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 157
Category/GenreLiterature - history and criticism
Literary studies - c 1500 to c 1800
Literary studies - c 1800 to c 1900
ISBN/Barcode 9781108830201
ClassificationsDewey:820.9005
Audience
General
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 21 July 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This collection provides students and researchers with a new and lively understanding of the role of institutions in the production, reception, and meaning of literature in the period 1700-1900. The period saw a fundamental transition from a patronage system to a marketplace in which institutions played an important mediating role between writers and readers, a shift with consequences that continue to resonate today. Often producers themselves, institutions processed and claimed authority over a variety of cultural domains that never simply tessellated into any unified system. The collection's primary concerns are British and imperial environments, with a comparative German case study, but it offers encouragement for its approaches to be taken up in a variety of other cultural contexts. From the Post Office to museums, from bricks and mortar to less tangible institutions like authorship and genre, this collection opens up a new field for literary studies.

Author Biography

Jon Mee is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of York. His books include Conversable Worlds: Literature, Contention, and Community 1762-1830 (2011), and Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s (2016). He is currently completing a book on cultural networks in the industrial revolution for which he held a British Academy-Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship, 2020-21. Matthew Sangster is Senior Lecturer in Romantic Studies, Fantasy and Cultural History at the University of Glasgow, and the author of Living as an Author in the Romantic Period (2021). He is co-investigator on two AHRC projects on historical library borrowings and has served on the Executive of the British Association for Romantic Studies for twelve years.