Leah Price is Professor of English at Harvard University.

'Leah Price has written a very original, imaginative, and compelling book. Who knew that George Eliot was stalked by readers trying to claim credit for writing her novels? Or that Ann Radcliffe introduced the practice of heading chapters with epigraphs? Who has ever noticed that skimming is like abridgement and skipping is like anthologising? Such delectable morsels alone would make this book attractive. When mixed in with its original and imaginative approach to literary history, they make The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel positively irresistible.' Mary Poovey

• Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Richardson's economies of scale; 2. Cultures of the commonplace; 3. Knox's Scissor-Doings; 4. George Eliot and the production of consumers; Notes; Bibliography.

Leah Price is Professor of English at Harvard University.

'Leah Price has written a very original, imaginative, and compelling book. Who knew that George Eliot was stalked by readers trying to claim credit for writing her novels? Or that Ann Radcliffe introduced the practice of heading chapters with epigraphs? Who has ever noticed that skimming is like abridgement and skipping is like anthologising? Such delectable morsels alone would make this book attractive. When mixed in with its original and imaginative approach to literary history, they make The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel positively irresistible.' Mary Poovey

• Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Richardson's economies of scale; 2. Cultures of the commonplace; 3. Knox's Scissor-Doings; 4. George Eliot and the production of consumers; Notes; Bibliography.

Leah Price is Professor of English at Harvard University.

'Leah Price has written a very original, imaginative, and compelling book. Who knew that George Eliot was stalked by readers trying to claim credit for writing her novels? Or that Ann Radcliffe introduced the practice of heading chapters with epigraphs? Who has ever noticed that skimming is like abridgement and skipping is like anthologising? Such delectable morsels alone would make this book attractive. When mixed in with its original and imaginative approach to literary history, they make The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel positively irresistible.' Mary Poovey

• Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Richardson's economies of scale; 2. Cultures of the commonplace; 3. Knox's Scissor-Doings; 4. George Eliot and the production of consumers; Notes; Bibliography.