Colour'd Shadows

Contexts in Publishing, Printing, and Reading Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers

T. Hoagwood, K. Ledbetter

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2005
• Print ISBN:
  9781403966377
• eBook ISBN:
  9781403979537
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: Literature

This book studies the print culture of the nineteenth century as it shaped the meanings and the cultural significance of literary works by women writers - Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lady Blessington, Lady Morgan, Caroline Norton, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and others. Colour'd Shadows explains and interprets the physical forms of their books, the economics and politics of production and reception, and the cultural meanings of their literary work, showing how poems, literary annuals, engravings, commercial arrangements, the practices of women editors as well as writers, the politics of gender, the changing means of production, and women's literary relationships unfold in the medium of print and, more largely, the rapidly changing culture of the century.

Table of contents

• Cover
• “Colour’d Shadows”
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Scholarly Fantasy and Material Reality in Mary Robinson’s Sappho and Phaon
• Chapter 2 Ideology and Textuality in Hemans’s Records of Woman
• Chapter 3 Scandal as Commodity and the “Calumniated Woman”
• Chapter 4 “The Very Roads of Literature”: Women Editors of Nineteenth-Century British Literary Annuals
• Chapter 5 Voluptuous Opportunities: Visual Images in the Keepsake
• Chapter 6 “The Fate of Woman At Its Root”: Elizabeth Barrett’s A Drama of Exile and Jean Ingelow’s A Story of Doom
• Chapter 7 “Varied Forms Pass Glitt’ring”: Violet Fane’s Denzil Place: A Story in Verse
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index