Minerva's Gothics: The Politics and Poetics of Romantic Exchange, 1780-1820

by Elizabeth A. Neiman

Between 1790 and 1820, William Lane's Minerva Press published an unprecedented number of new novels by female authors. Reading these novels for their shared popular conventions demonstrates that circulating-library novelists collectively recirculate, engage and modify commonplaces about women's nature, the social order and, most importantly, the very same Romantic redefinitions of literature that still render their novels not worth reading. Elizabeth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786833670
• ISBN13: 9781786833679
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"