1 10 1 https://polack.eastendarchives.net/files/original/2/8/BL_Paratexts_page_1.jpg e600131a37abdb1ed6e5f139d01b80ff https://polack.eastendarchives.net/files/original/2/8/BL_Paratexts_page_2.jpg 4e7dc098650f34b76554e4eb0c0060a4 https://polack.eastendarchives.net/files/original/2/8/BL_Paratexts_page_3.jpg 6be7cc5c7ef62af987a082f3f36cf468 https://polack.eastendarchives.net/files/original/2/8/BL_Paratexts_page_4.jpg b4c60ed876a53eaf6ecea5cd7edc1d52 https://polack.eastendarchives.net/files/original/2/8/BL_Paratexts_page_5.jpg 3d2f4ddd4fb0d4a67f6e7fda1de572dc https://polack.eastendarchives.net/files/original/2/8/BL_Paratexts_page_6.jpg 347d68aee9776daa7f5e5dcd2deee6a6 https://polack.eastendarchives.net/files/original/2/8/BL_Paratexts_page_7.jpg 6a923bc721728d1539b083d6dd990b42 https://polack.eastendarchives.net/files/original/2/8/BL_Paratexts_page_8.jpg 91b4da47f35ea25e0f8944c6a619cfe1 https://polack.eastendarchives.net/files/original/2/8/BL_Paratexts_page_9.jpg 720c3e633f01adcdb4d55c1880840295 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource British Library Paratexts Description An account of the resource My research on Maria Polack and her novel, Fiction Without Romance, led to the discovery of two sets of paratexts for this novel. Paratexts are the pages that frame and contextualize the novel. The British Library copy of the book contains a different set of paratexts from every other known copy of the novel. Gérard Genette explains that "More than a boundary or sealed border, the paratext is rather a threshold, or. . . a 'vestibule' that offers the world at large the possiblity of either stepping inside or turning back. It is an 'undefined zone' between the inside and the outside" of the book.1 He adds, the paratexts create a zone of "transaction" whereby they exert "an influence on the public" aimed at "the service of a better reception for the text."2 The Polack Archive makes both sets of paratexts of the novel available to the public. A comparison of these framing texts, particularly the title page, shows how each uniquely construct the author's identity. The novel's subscription list offers a record of Polack's funding model. As I explain in greater detail in The Archive's East End, Polack used subscription to raise funds for the printing of her novel. The list's record of her broad, trans-Atlantic audience preserves evidence of the intellectual reach of her work, while demonstrating global dimensions of East End cultural life. I have used the identities of the subscribers as a key to subtle but important features of the novel's content. Written on the eve of the abolition of slavery, Fiction Without Romance and the unusual paratexts from the British Library evoke a silent archive of enslaved voices. See The Archive's East End for further discussion of the significance of the subscription list in registering East End cultural production, Jewish global networks, and the silent archive of slavery. The paratexts in the six known copies of Fiction Without Romance appear in the archive edition of the novel. Notes 1. Genette, Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation, Translated by Janet E. Lewin, Forward by Richard Macksey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 1-2. 2. Genette, 2 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alternate Paratexts to Maria Polack's Fiction Without Romance; Or the Locket-Watch(1830)   Subject The topic of the resource Paratexts include Preface, Notice to Subscribers, Subscription List, and Title Page Description An account of the resource A set of paratexts found in the British Library copy of Maria Polack's novel. This set of paratexts is unique. No other copy of the novel includes these paratexts. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Maria Polack (author), Effingham Wilson(publisher), J. Wertheimer (printer) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Fiction Without Romance; or The Locket-Watch, copy in the British Library The British Library paratexts have been reproduced on this site courtesy of ©The British Library Board (1153.l.1, n.p.). They may not be reproduced or downloaded for any reason. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Effingham Wilson, London Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1830 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Heidi Kaufman Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource © British Library Board, General Reference Collection 1153.l.1. , n.p. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPegs Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Paratexts