ISSUE
14 (SUMMER
2005) [Download
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Wordsworth’s
‘Library of Babel’: Bibliomania, the 1814 Excursion,
and the 1815 Poems (Brian Robert Bates, University
of Denver)
James
Hogg’s Tales and Sketches and the Glasgow Number
Tradei (Peter Garside, University of Edinburgh & Gillian
Hughes, University of Stirling)
ISSUE
13 (WINTER 2004) [Download
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Essays (Peer-Reviewed)
Bibliography
of British Travel Writing, 1780–1840: The European
Tour, 1814–1818 (excluding Britain and Ireland) (Benjamin
Colbert, University of Wolverhampton)
The
Novel as Political Marker: Women Writers and their Female
Audiences in the Hookham and Carpenter Archives, 1791–1798
(Rita J. Kurtz & Jennifer L. Womer, Lehigh University)
Reports (Non-Reviewed)
Domesticating
the Novel: Moral–Domestic Fiction, 1820–1834 (Rachel
Howard, Cardiff University)
ISSUE
12 (SUMMER 2004)
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Essays (Peer-Reviewed)
‘Shadows
of Beauty, Shadows of Power’: Heroism, Deformity, and
Classical Allusion in Joshua Pickersgill’s The Three
Brothers and Byron’s The Deformed Transformed
(Imke Heuer, University of York)
‘Satire
is Bad Trade’: Dr John Wolcot and his Publishers and
Printers in Eighteenth-Century England’ (Donald Kerr)
Reports (Non-Reviewed)
Anne
and John Ker: New Soundings (John Gladstone Steele)
ISSUE
11 (DECEMBER
2003) [Download
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Essays (Peer-Reviewed)
Mary
Meeke’s Something Strange: The Development
of the Novel and the Possibilities of the Imagination (Michael
Page, University of Nebraska–Lincoln): A discussion
of the role of popular fiction, focusing on the fortunes of
Mary Meeke’s Something Strange.
Writing
for the Spectre of Poverty: Exhuming Sarah Wilkinson’s
Bluebooks and Novels (Franz Potter, Plymouth State University/Southern
New Hampshire University): An examination of the
career and fiction of Sarah Wilkinson, author of numerous
Gothic bluebooks and novels.
Reports (Non-Reviewed)
Subscribing
Fiction in Britain, 1780–1829 (Peter Garside,
Cardiff University): An analysis of the phenomenon of
subscription fiction during the Romantic period, providing
a comprehensive checklist of 100 titles published during the
years under discussion.
Anne
Ker (1766–1821): A Biographical and Bibliographical
Study (Rachel Howard, Cardiff University): A
survey of the life and works of the unapologetically commercial
novelist, Anne Ker.
ISSUE
10 (JUNE 2003)
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Jane
C. Loudon’s The Mummy!: Mary Shelley Meets
George Orwell, and They Go in a Balloon to Egypt (Lisa Hopkins,
Sheffield Hallam University): A consideration of the intertextual
relationship between Loudon’s novel and Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein.
The
Publication of Irish Novels and Novelettes, 1750–1829:
A Footnote on Irish Gothic Fiction (Rolf Loeber & Magda
Stouthamer-Loeber, University of Pittsburgh): An examination
of the development of short fictional forms in Ireland
during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Nostalgia
for Home or Homelands: Romantic Nationalism and the Indeterminate
Narrative in Frances Burney’s The Wanderer (Tamara
Wagner, National University of Singapore): An analysis
of the complex dynamic between Romantic formulations of nationalism
and nostalgia in Burney’s last novel.
ISSUE
09 (DECEMBER
2002) [Download
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Essays (Peer-Reviewed)
Gothic
Bluebooks in the Princely Library of Corvey and Beyond
(Angela Koch, University of Paderborn): An evaluation
of the short-lived Gothic bluebook, its relationship to the
novel genre, and its association with mass culture.
Archaisms
in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ (Margaret
J.-M. Sonmez, Middle East Technical University of Turkey):
An analysis of Coleridge’s uses of archaisms, orthographically,
generically, and paratextually.
Reports (Non-Reviewed)
‘The
Absolute Horror of Horrors’ Revised: A Bibliographical
Checklist of Early-Nineteenth-Century Gothic Bluebooks (Angela
Koch, University of Paderborn): A comprehensive listing
of over 200 Gothic bluebooks published during the Romantic
era.
The
Mysterious Mrs Meeke: A Biographical and Bibliographical Study
(Roberta Magnani, Cardiff University): A survey of the
life and work of Mary Meeke, possibly the most prolific author
of the Romantic period.
ISSUE
08 (JUNE
2002)
Copyright,
Authorship, and the Professional Writer: The Case of William
Wordsworth (Jacqueline Rhodes, CSU San Bernardino): A
discussion of the connections between authorship and copyright
law, in an examinination of Wordsworth’s poetry.
‘The
Common Gifts of Heaven’: Animal Rights and Moral Education
in Anna Letitia Barbauld’s ‘The Mouse’s Petition’and
‘The Caterpillar’ (Amy E. Weldon, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill): An analysis of the relationship
between animal rights and the poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld.
ISSUE
07 (DECEMBER
2001)
Essays (Peer-Reviewed)
‘Assailing
the Thing’: Politics of Space in William Cobbett’s
Rural Rides (Aruna Krishnamurthy, Lewis and Clark College):
An analysis of the interchange between radicalism, class-consciousness,
and print culture in William Cobbett’s Rural Rides.
Writing
to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield (Sharon
Ragaz, University of Toronto): A discussion of the intriguing
correspondence between the little-known poet and novelist
Mary Bryan Bedingfield and Sir Walter Scott.
Tales
of Other Times: A Survey of British Historical Fiction, 1770–1812
(Anne Stevens, New York University): An evaluation of
the significance of the historical tale before the arrival
of Scott’s Waverley.
Reports (Non-Reviewed)
The
Rise of the Tale: A Preliminary Checklist of Collections of
Short Fiction Published 1820–29 in the Corvey Collection
(Tim Killick, Cardiff University): A bibliographical checklist
of nearly 150 collections of shorter fiction published in
Britain during the 1820s.
Dutch
Translations of English Novels, 1770–1829 (Caspar Wintermans):
A survey of Dutch translations of English-language fiction
published between 1770 and 1829.
ISSUE
06 (JUNE
2001)
Hemans
and the Gift-Book Aesthetic (Laura Mandell, Miami University
in Oxford, Ohio): An examination of what was considered
as ‘good poetry’ for women writing in early-nineteenth-century
literary annuals.
Planting
Seeds of Virtue: Sentimental Fiction and the Moral Education
of Women (Pam Perkins, Manitoba): An assessment of the
dialogue between sentimental fiction and women’s education
during the late eighteenth century.
ISSUE
05 (NOVEMBER
2000)
The
English Landscape and the Romantic-Era Novel: Changing Concepts
of Space (Marie-Luise Egbert, Chemnitz): A discussion
of the influence of contemporary discourses of the picturesque
on the Gothic romance.
Dead
Funny: Eaton Stannard Barrett’s The Heroine as
Comic Gothic (Avril Horner, Salford & Sue Zlosnik, Liverpool
Hope): A reassessment of this novel which raises questions
concerning the nature of parody: its historical moment of
production, its engagement with a particular textual tradition,
and the way in which different readers construct meaning from
a parodic work.
ISSUE
04 (MAY
2000)
‘Saxon,
Think not All Is Won’: Felicia Hemans and the Making
of Britons (Jane Aaron, Glamorgan): This paper details
the tensions between Welsh and British in the Romantic poetry
of Felicia Hemans.
Some
Preliminary Remarks on the Production and Reception of Fiction
Relating to Ireland, 1800–1829 (Jacqueline Belanger,
Cardiff University): An analysis of early nineteenth-century
novels with a focus on Ireland, including a bibliographical
checklist of 114 items.
Anonymity
and the Pressures of Publication in the Early Nineteenth Century
(Kathryn Dawes): This article examines the tensions between
anonymity and female authorship in the novel of the 1800s.
ISSUE
03 (SEPTEMBER
1999)
High
and Low: Some Remarks on the Reading Culture of the Late Eighteenth
and Early Nineteenth Centuries (Margaretta Björkman, Uppsala):
This paper discusses the significance of the nineteenth-century
European author August Lafontaine, and how representative
this phenomenon is of the Nineteenth Century’s literary
culture.
Scott
and the ‘Common’ Novel, 1808–1819 (Peter Garside,
Cardiff University): A consideration of Scott’s awareness
of, and involvement with, the fictional trends of the late
1800s and the 1810s.
Revising
the Radcliffean Model: Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey
and Regina Maria Roche’s Clermont (Anthony Mandal,
Cardiff University): This article considers the impact
of Ann Radcliffe’s popular Mysteries of Udolpho
on the fiction of two significant contemporaries: Jane Austen
and Regina Maria Roche.
ISSUE
02 (JUNE
1998)
‘The
Gothic Novel in Wales’ Revisited: A Preliminary Survey
of the Wales-Related Romantic Fiction at Cardiff University
(Andrew Davies, Cardiff University): This article reconsiders
the position of Anglo-Welsh Romantic fiction in the light
of Andrew Davies’ research, employing material available
in the Edition Corvey and Cardiff’s Salisbury
Library.
Mrs
Ross and Elizabeth B. Lester: New Attributions (Peter Garside,
Cardiff University): A study of the various problems concerning
author attributions when examining novels from the early nineteenth
century.
ISSUE
01 (AUGUST 1997)
Producing
Fiction in Britain, 1800–1829 (Peter Garside & Anthony
Mandal, Cardiff University): This article deals with Peter
Garside’s work with Corvey materials and the publishing
world in relation to Walter Scott’s first novels.
REPORTS
ON CARDIFF CORVEY
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Database of British
Fiction, 1800–1829
Phase
I Report (Peter Garside & Anthony Mandal): Information
about the first stage (1997–99) of our ongoing database
project.
Phase
II Report (Feb–Nov 2000) and Circulating-Library Checklist
(Database Project Team): Details of the latest research
in our database project, as well as a full Checklist
of 2,256 titles from four circulating libraries.
Phase
II: Anecdotal Comments (Database Project Team): A record
of comments from 30 sources, which will form a fraction of
the material included in our continuing database project.
Phase
II: The Flowers of Literature (Database Project Team):
Transcriptions of reviews in The Flowers of Literature
(1801–09), of over 140 novels and tales.
Phase
II: Advertisements for Novels in The Star, 1815–24
(Database Project Team): Listings of newspaper announcements
in one of the popular London dailies of the early nineteenth
century.
Phase
II: Walter Scott, Tales of my Landlord (1816): A
Publishing Record (Database Project Team): Full transcriptions
of documents relating to the publication of Scott’s
collection of tales, drawn from the archives of William Blackwood
& Sons, Longmans, and John Murray.
The English
Novel, 1800–1829
Bibliography
Update 1—Apr 2000–May 2001 (Peter Garside, with
Jacqueline Belanger & Anthony Mandal): A full update
to vol. 2 of The English Novel, 1770–1829:
A Bibliogtraphical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the
British Isles (OUP, 2000), including new titles, author
attributions, clarifications, etc.
Bibliography
Update 2—June 2001–May 2002 (Peter Garside, with
Jacqueline Belanger, Anthony Mandal, & Sharon Ragaz):
The second annual update to vol. 2 of The English
Novel, 1770–1829.
Bibliography
Update 3—June 2002–May 2003 (Peter Garside, with
Jacqueline Belanger, Sharon Ragaz, & Anthony Mandal):
The third annual update to vol. 2 of The English
Novel, 1770–1829.
Bibliography
Update 4—June 2003–August 2004 (Peter Garside, with
Jacqueline Belanger, Sharon Ragaz, & Anthony Mandal):
The fourth annual update to vol. 2 of The English
Novel, 1770–1829.
Bibliography
Update 5—August 2004–August 2005 (Peter Garside,
with Jacqueline Belanger, Sharon Ragaz, & Anthony Mandal):
The fifth and final annual update to vol. 2 of The
English Novel, 1770–1829.
Other Projects
A Catalogue of the Corvey Microfiche Edition in
English (Anthony Mandal): This paper has details about
the recataloguing of the Corvey Microfiche Edition (English)
occurring at Cardiff, including a sample checklist of the
first 100 works catalogued.
Representations of Wales in Fiction of the Romantic
Era: Digitisation Project (Andrew Davies & Anthony Mandal):
Details of a pilot scanning project being run within the Centre
for Editorial and Intertextual Research, along with a
sample text can be found in these pages.
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Grundy (Alberta), David Hewitt (Aberdeen), Claire
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