TY - JOUR
T1 - Transatlantic Business: Edward Bulwer-Lytton and the American Literary Marketplace
AU - Bautz, Annika
PY - 2021/5/1
Y1 - 2021/5/1
N2 - This essay focuses on the transatlantic literary marketplace, using Edward Bulwer-Lytton and three of his historical novels – Rienzi (1835), The Last of the Barons (1843), and Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings (1848) – as a case study. It investigates the factors that contributed to Bulwer’s superlative position, as well as how he shaped and used his literary authority to negotiate profitable business agreements in the context of the transatlantic reprint trade.
AB - This essay focuses on the transatlantic literary marketplace, using Edward Bulwer-Lytton and three of his historical novels – Rienzi (1835), The Last of the Barons (1843), and Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings (1848) – as a case study. It investigates the factors that contributed to Bulwer’s superlative position, as well as how he shaped and used his literary authority to negotiate profitable business agreements in the context of the transatlantic reprint trade.
UR - https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/context/sc-research/article/1370/viewcontent/Bautz_Transatlantic_Business.pdf
M3 - Article
VL - 25
SP - 51
EP - 73
JO - Symbiosis – A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations
JF - Symbiosis – A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations
IS - 1
ER -