Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tennyson and Mid-Victorian Publishing; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction: Poetry, Books, and Publishing History; 'Nobody Wants Poetry Now' -- Publishing After the Romantics; Archives and Other Sources; Publishing History; Publishing Strategies: 'Tranching Down' and 'Dressing Up'; Publishing as Cultural Mediation; Notes; 2 Edward Moxon in Context; A Publisher's Education; An Independent Publisher; Friends and Patrons; William Wordsworth; Percy Bysshe Shelley; John Keats; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Thomas Campbell; Publishing Drama; Miscellaneous Works

Cheap EditionsNotes; 3 Tennyson by Numbers: Edward Moxon and the Business of Publishing; Production Costs; Distribution; Advertising; Sales of Tennyson's 1842 Poems; Evolving the Moxon Book; Sales Patterns and Literary Celebrity: The Princess, In Memoriam and Maud and other poems; Idylls of the King, Enoch Arden and A Selection from the Works of Alfred Tennyson; Notes; 4 Publishing Tennyson in America; Payments to Tennyson; Tennyson's Poetical Works as Published by Ticknor and Fields; Dressing Up Tennyson: Ticknor and Fields' Brown Cover; 'Blue and Gold': Tranching Down and Dressing Up; Notes

5 Moxon, Tennyson and the Illustrated BookPublishing without Moxon: Early Illustrated Editions; Edward Moxon and the Illustrated Book; Notes; 6 James Bertrand Payne and the Demise of the Moxon Firm; A Selection from the Works of Alfred Tennyson; The Illustrated Enoch Arden; The Illustrated Idylls of the King; Notes; 7 Fame and its Consequences; The Production of Tennyson's Image; The Old and the New: Photography and Portraiture; Publishing and Portraiture; Notes; 8 Conclusion: Tennyson and the Evolution of Victorian Publishing; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index