Style, Inc. Reflections on Seven Thousand Titles (British Novels, 1740–1850)

Moretti describes a major metamorphosis of eighteenth-century titles and tries to explain its causes. He also suggests how a new type of title that emerged around 1800 may have changed what readers expected of British novels. Finally, he makes a little attempt at quantitative stylistics to examine s...

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Published in:Critical inquiry 2009-09, Vol.36 (1), p.134-158
Main Author: Moretti, Franco
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adjectives
Book publishing
Changes
European history
Libraries
Marketable titles
Narrative plot
Narratives
Nouns
Novels
Proper names
Protagonists
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Summary:Moretti describes a major metamorphosis of eighteenth-century titles and tries to explain its causes. He also suggests how a new type of title that emerged around 1800 may have changed what readers expected of British novels. Finally, he makes a little attempt at quantitative stylistics to examine some strategies by which titles point to specific genres.
ISSN:0093-1896
1539-7858
DOI:10.1086/606125