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This study is the first full-length study of the Gothic chapbook It contains a list of 400 Gothic chapbooks. The list provides bibliographical information as well as the location of the text. It provides biographical information on the publishers and booksellers involved in the development, production and dissemination of the Gothic chapbook.
To better understand and contextualise the twilight of the Gothic genre during the 1920s and 1830s, The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835: Exhuming the Trade examines the disreputable aspects of the Gothic trade from its horrid bluebooks to the desperate hack writers who created the short tales of terror. From the Gothic publishers to the circulating libraries, this study explores the conflict between the canon and the twilight, and between the disreputable and the moral.
A bibliography of 6200 entries of short fiction by women writers in English, defined to include both traditional forms such as the novella, short story, prose character and the sketch, and other forms such as moral tales, collections of legends and folklore, prose allegories and proverb stories.
The contribution of women to Romantic poetry has been generally underestimated. Romantic Poetry by Women: A Bibliography, 1770 - 1835 provides the first complete record of the volumes of verse written by women and reveals the scale of their involvement in the Romantic movement. The Bibliography includes the work of around 900 authors , with biographical headnotes. It is fully indexed and cross-referenced, providing details of publication, indexes of publishers and places of publication, as well as of authors and titles. This will be an indispensable resource for all students of writing by women and of Romantic poetry in general.