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Literary Branding in the Romantic Period by Christopher Laxer A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of English University of Toronto © Copyright by Christopher Laxer 2013 Literary Branding in the Romantic Period Christopher Laxer Doctor of Philosophy Department of English University of Toronto 2013 Abstract This thesis argues that, unlike the study of commodity branding, the study of literary branding should not focus solely upon book advertising, but rather investigate all of the processes of attribution that connect conceptual domains with literary labels, enabling their common use in the perception and navigation of the cultural world. Such processes should not be understood exclusively by analogy with the forms of commodity branding that originated in the consumer revolutions of the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries, but rather as the inherent consequences of more ancient and fundamental practices of naming and poetry. Rather than interpret the reactions of historical readers to Byron, for instance, largely in terms of the author as subject – as has been the tendency with earlier approaches to the question – this thesis seeks to explore historical readers’ reactions to the author’s name as label. The readers of Don Juan in 1819 knew Byron, not as we do after two centuries of biographical research, scholarly inquiry, and literary criticism, but as a literary label with relatively few associations. Arguing that the recent vogue for celebrity studies risks reifying elements of what Jerome McGann has called the Romantic Ideology, this thesis attempts to begin to redress this critical imbalance by examining the deployment of a number of interconnected literary labels in a series of case studies. If we wish to know more about what “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” “Byron,” or “Wordsworthian” might have meant to readers in the Romantic period, we must examine the uses of those labels in situ. ii List of Abbreviations BCPW Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works. Ed. Jerome McGann. 7 vols. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1980-93. BLJ Byron’s Letters and Journals. Ed. Leslie A. Marchand. 13 vols. London: John Murray, 1973-94. CHP Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage EBSR English Bards and Scotch Reviewers LJM The Letters of John Murray to Lord Byron. Ed. Andrew Nicholson. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2007. OED Oxford English Dictionary RNRP The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period. William St Clair. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. VRM A Vindication of the Rights of Men VRW A Vindication of the Rights of Woman iii Table of Contents List of Abbreviations iii Table of Contents iv List of Figures vi 1 Introduction 1 1.1 What is literary branding? 1 1.2 Literary branding, celebrity, and reception studies 10 1.3 A brief history of eighteenth-century newspaper advertising 15 1.4 The case for studying Romantic newspapers 19 2 A vindication of Mary Wollstonecraft’s influence 1787-1800 25 2.1 How influential was A Vindication of the Rights of Woman? 25 2.2 Degrees of non-reading 34 2.3 Book titles as literary experience 36 2.4 “Wollstonecraft” and “the Rights of Woman” in the newspapers 1787-1800 39 2.5 Godwin’s Memoirs 54 2.6 Conclusion 62 3 The branding of Byron 1812-24 64 3.1 How was Byron branded? 64 3.2 The limits of advertising and marketing 65 3.3 Advertising Childe Harold 1812-1814 73 3.4 Advertising the Turkish Tales 1813-14 85 3.5 Consolidation and controversy 1814-16 88 3.6 John Murray’s attempts to control literary branding 100 3.7 Advertising Don Juan Cantos I and II 114 3.8 Conclusion 123 4 “Wordsworth, where he is indeed Wordsworth”: authorial adjectives, metaphors, and semantic attribution 126 4.1 What does “Wordsworthian” mean? 126 4.2 Author names as adjectives, metaphors, and superordinate categories 130 4.3 Early uses of Wordsworth as a metaphor 1801-1819 141 4.4 The case of Peter Bell and The River Duddon 1819-1820 155 4.5 “Wordsworthian” in the newspapers 1838-1850 168 iv 4.6 “Wordsworthian” as a noun 1812-1897 176 4.7 “William Wordsworth” as an aptronym 180 4.8 Conclusion 182 5 Conclusion 189 5.1 Arguments from book history and cognitive science 189 5.2 A literary labels database 195 5.3 Literary branding and literary criticism 198 Works Consulted 201 v List of Figures Fig. 1 Post Boy (London, England), Tuesday, July 19, 1698. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 16 Fig. 2 Whitehall Evening Post or London Intelligencer (London, England), December 25, 1755 - December 27, 1755; Issue 1535. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 18 Fig. 3 Literary branding/criticism continuum 23 Fig. 4 General Evening Post (London, England), August 21, 1787 - August 23, 1787; Issue 8386. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 39 Fig. 5 World (1787) (London, England), Wednesday, April 16, 1788; Issue 405. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 40 Fig. 6 Whitehall Evening Post (1770) (London, England), November 25, 1790 - November 27, 1790; Issue 6596. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 40 Fig. 7 Whitehall Evening Post (1770) (London, England), Tuesday, December 14, 1790; Issue 6603. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 41 Fig. 8 Public Advertiser (London, England), Monday, December 27, 1790; Issue 17620. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 42 Fig. 9 Public Advertiser (London, England), Monday, December 27, 1790; Issue 17620. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 43 Fig. 10 General Evening Post (London, England), March 15, 1791 - March 17, 1791; Issue 8965. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 44 Fig. 11 Morning Herald (London, England), Tuesday, June 28, 1791; Issue 3344. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 45 Fig. 12 Star (London, England), Wednesday, March 16, 1796; Issue 2365. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 46 Fig. 13 World (1787) (London, England), Wednesday, August 3, 1791; Issue 1432. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 47 Fig. 14 World (1787) (London, England), Friday, September 9, 1791; Issue 1464. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 47 Fig. 15 World (1787) (London, England), Monday, October 10, 1791; Issue 1490. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 48 Fig. 16 St. James's Chronicle or the British Evening Post (London, England), Thursday, December 22, 1791; Issue 4797. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 48 Fig. 17 General Evening Post (London, England), Saturday, January 14, 1792; Issue 9096. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 49 Fig. 18 Public Advertiser (London, England), Tuesday, January 31, 1792; Issue 17963. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 50 vi Fig. 19 Star (London, England), Friday, March 9, 1792; Issue 1 206. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 50 Fig. 20 Morning Herald (London, England), Tuesday, April 24, 1792; Issue 4102. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 51 Fig. 21 Diary or Woodfall's Register (London, England), Saturday, August 25, 1792; Issue 1070. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 51 Fig. 22 London Packet or New Lloyd's Evening Post (London, England), October 13, 1794 - October 15, 1794; Issue 3926. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 52 Fig. 23 The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Thursday, April 23, 1812; Issue 13404. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 80 Fig. 24 The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Wednesday, April 29, 1812; Issue 13409. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 81 Fig. 25 The Aberdeen Journal (Aberdeen, Scotland), Wednesday, May 20, 1812; Issue 3358. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 83 Fig. 26 The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Friday, July 3, 1812; Issue 13465. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 84 Fig. 27 The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Monday, April 4, 1814; Issue 14013. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 84 Fig. 28 The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Tuesday, June 8, 1813; Issue 13758. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 85 Fig. 29 The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Monday, November 29, 1813; Issue 13905. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 86 Fig. 30 The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Tuesday, January 25, 1814; Issue 13954. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 87 Fig. 31 The Morning Post (London, England), Wednesday, February 16, 1814; Issue 13439. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 89 Fig. 32 Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh, Scotland), Saturday, June 11, 1814; Issue 14431. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 90 Fig. 33 Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh, Scotland), Monday, August 1, 1814; Issue 14453. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 91 Fig. 34 Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh, Scotland), Saturday, July 23, 1814; Issue 14449. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 92 Fig. 35 Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh, Scotland), Thursday, August 11, 1814; Issue 14457. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 92 Fig. 36 The Morning Post (London, England), Friday, April 07, 1815; pg. [1]; Issue 13795. ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 05/02/2013 93 Fig. 37 The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Friday, February 9, 1816; Issue 14593.
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