William Lane and the Minerva Press in the Review Periodical, 1790–1820

Peiser, Megan 2020. William Lane and the Minerva Press in the Review Periodical, 1790–1820. Romantic Textualities (23) , pp. 124-148. 10.18573/romtext.76

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Abstract

As the most infamous novel publisher of the Romantic period, William Lane’s Minerva Press garnered significant attention in the book review periodicals of the day. This article uses the Novels Reviewed Database, 1790–1820 and quantitative methodologies to track the ways that Lane, his press and the novels it published, were presented to England’s reading public while the press flourished. The Reviews critique the novels’ subject matter, originality, the material makeup of the printed books and gendered authorship. Taking up that data, this article provides a qualitative analysis of the long reaching implications of the rhetoric deployed by the Reviews in their scathing criticisms, and traces how it continues to pervade modern scholarship on the press today.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D204 Modern History H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0441 Literary History Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z004 Books. Writing. Paleography Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources > ZA4450 Databases
Publisher:	Cardiff University Press
ISSN:	1748-0116
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	16 November 2020
Date of Acceptance:	22 January 2019
Last Modified:	05 May 2023 15:38
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/136391

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