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Tennyson and Mid-Victorian Publishing

Moxon, Poetry, Commerce

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Jim Cheshire

    1. Lincoln, United Kingdom

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  • Offers a new perspective on Tennyson’s writing and his relationship with the publishing industry

  • Provides a lively and engaging account of the way in which Tennyson harnessed the changes in publishing to his own advantage

  • Uses primary source material from the Tennyson Research Centre – one of the first books to do so

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Poetry, Books, and Publishing History

    • Jim Cheshire
    Pages 1-24

  3. Edward Moxon in Context

    • Jim Cheshire
    Pages 25-61

  4. Tennyson by Numbers: Edward Moxon and the Business of Publishing

    • Jim Cheshire
    Pages 63-100

  5. Publishing Tennyson in America

    • Jim Cheshire
    Pages 101-136

  6. Moxon, Tennyson and the Illustrated Book

    • Jim Cheshire
    Pages 137-158

  7. James Bertrand Payne and the Demise of the Moxon Firm

    • Jim Cheshire
    Pages 159-196

  8. Fame and its Consequences

    • Jim Cheshire
    Pages 197-241

  9. Conclusion: Tennyson and the Evolution of Victorian Publishing

    • Jim Cheshire
    Pages 243-248

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 249-260
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About this book

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 time that Edward Moxon founded his business in 1830 but by the mid-1860s, his firm presided over a resurgence in poetry based on Tennyson’s work. Moxon not only orchestrated Tennyson’s rise to fame but was a major influence on how the Victorian public experienced the poetry of the Romantic period. This study reevaluates his crucial role, and examines how he repackaged poetry for the Victorian public.




Authors and Affiliations

  • Lincoln, United Kingdom

    Jim Cheshire

About the author

Jim Cheshire is Reader in Cultural History at the University of Lincoln, UK. His research examines the material, literary and visual culture of the nineteenth century. He works on publishing history, literary celebrity, Victorian medievalism, stained glass and Victorian interior design.



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