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When Novels Were Books by Jordan Alexander Stein (review)
Ist Teil von
Studies in the Novel, 2021-07, Vol.53 (2), p.200-202
Ort / Verlag
Denton: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
While there was no single connecting hinge, Stein convincingly argues that Crusoe bears significant formal continuities with negative figurations of character, that such negative figurations of character had a long and significant gestation as part of some of Christianity’s complex theories of representation, and that the class of books now recognized by bibliographers as devotional steady sellers were an important point of dissemination for those negative figures among common readers in the generations leading up to the publication of Crusoe. With admirable historical spadework, Stein shows how the “novel” was a term applied to the remaining titles in the book market after Protestant benevolent publishers had “subtracted” (126) books of piety from that market over the course of the second half of the eighteenth century. [...]general publishers no longer bothered printing them because they were unable to compete financially.