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Tennyson and Mid-Victorian Publishing: Moxon, Poetry, Commerce

By Jim Cheshire (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2016
ISBN
978-1-137-33814-3, 978-1-137-33815-0
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-33815-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (19168880 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XIII, 260\269
Time added
2017-04-19 23:43:43
British and Irish Literature;Nineteenth-Century Li

Description

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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