Forget Me Not: The Rise of the British Literary Annual, 1823-1835

ISBN-13: 9780821421369 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 410 str.

Katherine D. Harris

Opis

By November 1822, the British reading public had already voraciously consumed both Walter Scott s expensive novels and Rudolf Ackermann s exquisite lithographs. The next decade, referred to by some scholars as dormant and unproductive, is in fact bursting with "Forget Me Nots, Friendship s Offerings, Keepsakes, " and "Literary Souvenirs." By wrapping literature, poetry, and art into an alluring package, editors and publishers saturated the market with a new, popular, and best-selling genre, the literary annual. In Forget Me Not, KatherineD. Harris assesses the phenomenal rise of the annual and its origins in other English, German, and French literary forms as well as its social influence on women, its redefinition of the feminine, and its effects on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century print culture. Harris adopts an interdisciplinary approach that uses textual and social contexts to explore a forum of subversive femininity, where warfare and the masculine hero were not celebrated.