Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 17971830 EPUB
by Franz J. Potter
Part of the Gothic Literary Studies series
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This study breaks new ground surveying the origins of the Gothic chapbook, its publishers and authors, in order to establish conclusively the impact these pamphlets had on the development of the Gothic genre. Considered the illegitimate offspring of the Gothic novel, the lowly chapbook flooded the market in the late eighteenth century, creating a separate and distinct secondary market for tales of terror. The trade was driven by a handful of individuals who were booksellers and dealers, circulating library proprietors, stationers, and small publishers - what they produced were more than four hundred chapbooks, bluebooks and shilling shockers containing Gothic tales from magazines, redactions of popular novels, extractions of entire inset tales, and original tales of terror. This book responds to the urgent and pressing need to contextualise the Gothic chapbook in ascertaining a more concise and comprehensive view of the entire Gothic genre.
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- Publication Date:15/01/2021
- ISBN:9781786836724
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:University of Wales Press
- Publication Date:15/01/2021
- ISBN:9781786836724
