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

by Jim Cheshire

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137338148
• ISBN13: 9781137338143
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.7"