Authorship, Commerce and the Public: Scenes of Writing, 1750–1850

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Anne Grant and the Professionalization of Privacy....Pages 29-43
Women Poets and Anonymity in the Romantic Era....Pages 44-53
Walter Scott: Anonymity and the Unmasking of Harlequin....Pages 54-66
James Hogg and his Publishers: The Queen’s Wake and Queen Hynde ....Pages 67-83
Authority and Community: John Clare and John Taylor....Pages 84-99
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Eliza Haywood and the Discourse of Taste....Pages 103-119
Camilla in the Marketplace: Moral Marketing and Feminist Editing in 1796 and 1802....Pages 120-135
Economics, Expertise, Enterprise and the Literary Scene: The Commercial Management Ethos in British Circulating Libraries, 1780–1830....Pages 136-152
Popular Romanticism? Publishing, Readership and the Making of Literary History....Pages 153-168
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Cultures of Print: Mass Markets and Theories of the Liberal Public Sphere....Pages 171-185
‘The Hastings Circle’: Writers and Writing in Calcutta in the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century....Pages 186-202
A ‘Memorable Grave’: The Abject Subtext of Charles Lloyd’s Edmund Oliver ....Pages 203-217
State Patronage and the Romantic Writer: Henry Taylor’s Modest Proposal ....Pages 218-236
Back Matter....Pages 237-242