Romance

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the popularity of printed romance in the seventeenth century. During this period, new titles were steadily produced while enduring favorites reached diversifying audiences. The steady production of prose romances at their original, often voluminous, length meant that new buyers were drawn from the middling ranks of income and literacy; a secondary, non-buying audience of listeners and borrowers apparently built romance's popularity before cheaper redactions were developed. Credit must also be given to authors who found clever ways to attract and reassure new readers: women, the young, countryfolk, artisans, and apprentices.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationCheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
EditorsJoad Raymond
Place of PublicationOxford
PublisherOxford University Press
Pages363-376
ISBN (Print)9780199287048
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011

Publication series

NameThe Oxford History of Popular Print Culture
Volume1

Keywords

  • print culture
  • prose romance
  • printed romance
  • seventeenth century
  • authors

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