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Gothic Print Culture, 1789-1900: Volume II: Chapbooks

Jennifer Camden

This volume centers on gothic literature in chapbooks and bluebooks. Chapbooks and bluebooks capitalized on the popularity of gothic novels by publishing much shorter and cheaper pamphlets. Many bluebooks were abbreviated or adapted versions of popular novels, while others were composed specifically for this format. Both the adaptations and original compositions constitute a reworking and extension of the gothic to an even broader audience. This volume will provides select images of these texts and their copious illustrations, which have rarely been reprinted and are extremely rare because of their popularity and ephemerality. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this title will be of great interest to students of literature.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publish Date: Jun 3rd, 2026
  • Pages: 430
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00lb
  • EAN: 9780367649593
  • Categories: Gothic & RomanceGeneralModern - 19th Century

About the Author

Jennifer Camden is the Beverley J. Pitts Distinguished Professor of the Ron and Laura Strain Honors College and Associate Chair and Professor of English at University of Indianapolis. She is the author of Secondary Heroines in the Nineteenth-Century
British and American Novel (Routledge, 2010) and, with Kate Faber Oestreich, Transmedia Storytelling: Pemberley Digital's Adaptations of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley (Cambridge Scholars, 2018), as well as articles on women writers and gothic
fiction.

JoEllen DeLucia is Professor of English at Central Michigan University. She is the author of A Feminine Enlightenment: British Women Writers and the Philosophy of Progress, 1759-1820 (EUP, 2015), in addition to articles on women writes, moral
philosophy, and gothic fiction published in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Women Writers, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, and European Romantic Review. Most recently, she edited with Juliet Shields Migration and
Modernities: The State of Being Stateless, 1750-1850 (EUP, 2019).