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Chapter 5 - Writers of Books

The Unmediated Novel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2019

Richard Menke
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University of Georgia
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Marie Corelli wrote bestselling supernatural romances and detested the New Woman, while George Paston wrote realistic New Woman novels that cultivated a small, intellectual readership. Yet in the wake of the three-volume novel, both authors produced fiction about the writing life that makes the case for the codex book and the single-volume novel as bulwarks against the circular, self-contained system of other media—a system maintained by men. Corelli’s The Sorrows of Satan (1895) puts forward the bestselling novel as a means of direct, sanctified connection between celebrity author and adoring audience. Paston’s A Writer of Books (1898) looks to the future work, the novel unwritten, as a repository of truth and meaning. Together, they suggest that in the wake of the three-volume novel, the problem of the novel’s relationship to media systems could be approached as a problem of how and whether the novel mediates.

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  • Writers of Books
  • Richard Menke, University of Georgia
  • Book: Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900
  • Online publication: 30 September 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108631884.006
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  • Writers of Books
  • Richard Menke, University of Georgia
  • Book: Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900
  • Online publication: 30 September 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108631884.006
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  • Writers of Books
  • Richard Menke, University of Georgia
  • Book: Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900
  • Online publication: 30 September 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108631884.006
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