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Leah Price. The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel from Richardson to George Eliot.(Book Review)

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From: Studies in Romanticism
Date: 20050922
Author:Pascoe, Judith

Leah Price. The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel from Richardson to George Eliot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 232. $70.00 cloth/$26.99 paper.

Hefty new anthologies of romantic literature, expanded to enlarge the canon, land on one's desk with a resounding thump, so it is easy to forget that the anthology is a miniaturizing strategy, one of several that Leah Price takes up in her elegantly written and persuasively argued brief for the anthology as a distinct and influential genre. In three central chapters which focus on the novelistic practices of ...

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