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During the Minerva Press's heyday, founder William Lane published in an extraordinary range of genres. Following the original organizational taxonomy that Lane used in his own promotional materials, Eve Tavor Bannet here explores each: Historical fiction, Terror and Mystery Fiction ('Gothic'), Fairy Tales, Tales of the Times, National Tales, Wanderers Tales, Novels of Education, Female Biography and Marital Domestic Fiction. In providing the first modern analysis of the majority of texts that Lane published, she reveals how the Minerva Press bridged the gap between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fiction and sheds light on how contemporary methods of imitative writing produced its characteristically fluid, hybrid and modular fictions. These characteristics, she demonstrates, enabled its women authors to converse with one another, intervening in key contemporary political, cultural and domestic debates and earned many well-deserved popularity and praise from those judging by the pre-Romantic methods of evaluation in use.
Contents
Introduction: Lane's Press; 1. Introducing generic labels, imitative methods, and the aesthetics of reuse; 2. Minerva historicals; or 'the warning voice of the past'; 3. Minerva terror and mystery: or 'unaccountable occurrences'; 4. Minerva fairy tales; or 'wonders' and 'everyday miracles'; 5. Minerva tales of the times; or 'the prevailing follies'; 6. Minerva regionals: or 'the virtues, the graces ... our nation boasts'; 7. Minerva's domestic-provincials: or 'persevere in virtue, and you will be happy.'; Conclusion: 'Fame is Fame'; Appendices.
