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Frances Burney’s “Evelina”: The Book, its History, and its Paratext: New Directions in Book History

Autor Svetlana Kochkina
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 apr 2023
Evelina, the first novel by Frances Burney, published in 1778, enjoys lasting popularity among the reading public. Tracing its publication history through 174 editions, adaptations, and reprints, many of them newly discovered and identified, this book demonstrates how the novel’s material embodiment in the form of the printed book has been reshaped by its publishers, recasting its content for new generations of readers. Four main chapters vividly describe how during 240 years, Evelina, a popular novel of manners, metamorphosed without any significant alterations to its text into a Regency “rambling” text, a romantic novel for “lecteurs délicats,” a cheap imprint for circulating libraries, a yellow-back, a book with a certain aesthetic cachet, a Christmas gift-book, finally becoming an integral part of the established literary canon in annotated scholarly editions. This book also focuses on the remodelling and transformation of the paratext in this novel, writtenby a woman author, by the heavily male-dominated publishing industry. Shorter Entr’acte sections discuss and describe alterations in the forms of Burney’s name and the title of her work, the omission and renaming of her authorial prefaces, and the redeployment of the publisher’s prefatorial apparatus to support particular editions throughout almost two-and-a-half centuries of the novel’s existence. Illustrated with reproductions of covers, frontispieces, and title pages, the book also provides an illuminating insight into the role of Evelina’s visual representation in its history as a marketable commodity, highlighting the existence of editions targeting various segments of the book market: from the upper-middle-class to mass-readership. The first comprehensive and fully updated bibliography of English and translated editions, adaptations, and reprints of Evelina published in 13 languages and scripts appears in an appendix.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783031177965
ISBN-10: 3031177967
Pagini: 285
Ilustrații: XXXIII, 285 p. 20 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Ediția:2023
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria New Directions in Book History

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Chapter 1: Beginnings: Published Wide and Often.- Chapter 2: Books for All Tastes and Wallets.- Chapter 3: Entering the Literary Canon.- Chapter 4: Evelina: The Life in Print.-  Chapter 5: Conclusion.- Coda: Digital Afterlife.

Notă biografică

Svetlana Kochkina is Lecturer at McGill University School of Information Studies and the Head of Access and Lending Service at McGill University Library, Canada. She does research and publishes on the history of the book, evolution of the form and paratextual elements of the book, and Frances Burney’s social networks.

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Evelina, the first novel by Frances Burney, published in 1778, enjoys lasting popularity among the reading public. Tracing its publication history through 174 editions, adaptations, and reprints, many of them newly discovered and identified, this book demonstrates how the novel’s material embodiment in the form of the printed book has been reshaped by its publishers, recasting its content for new generations of readers. Four main chapters vividly describe how during 240 years, Evelina, a popular novel of manners, metamorphosed without any significant alterations to its text into a Regency “rambling” text, a romantic novel for “lecteurs délicats,” a cheap imprint for circulating libraries, a yellow-back, a book with a certain aesthetic cachet, a Christmas gift-book, finally becoming an integral part of the established literary canon in annotated scholarly editions. This book also focuses on the remodelling and transformation of the paratext in this novel, writtenby a woman author, by the heavily male-dominated publishing industry. Shorter Entr’acte sections discuss and describe alterations in the forms of Burney’s name and the title of her work, the omission and renaming of her authorial prefaces, and the redeployment of the publisher’s prefatorial apparatus to support particular editions throughout almost two-and-a-half centuries of the novel’s existence. Illustrated with reproductions of covers, frontispieces, and title pages, the book also provides an illuminating insight into the role of Evelina’s visual representation in its history as a marketable commodity, highlighting the existence of editions targeting various segments of the book market: from the upper-middle-class to mass-readership. The first comprehensive and fully updated bibliography of English and translated editions, adaptations, and reprints of Evelina published in 13 languages and scripts appears in an appendix.

Caracteristici

Traces the publication history of Burney’s first and most successful novel from 1778 to the present Examines the evolution of paratextual apparatus and its role in shaping readers’ experience and book’s positioning on the market Discusses visual presentation of the novel and use of fashion in illustrations as marketing devices