"In the Romantic period, more novels were published in England than ever before. This book offers scholars and book historians a new perspective on the effects of this change, showing how this age of mass production inspired both critique and innovation among authors, publishers, readers and reviewers"--

Hannah Doherty Hudson is Associate Professor of English at Suffolk University in Boston.

Introduction: the Minerva Press era; 1. Minerva's writers and reviewers; 2. Godwin, Bage, Parsons, and novels as they are; 3. Imitating Ann Radcliffe 4. Hannah More's Cœlebs and the novel of the moment; 5. Fiction as fashion from Belinda to Miss Byron; 6. Walter Scott's industrial antiques; Epilogue: remainders.