Making of the Victorian Novelist

Anxieties of Authorship in the Mass Market
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-415-86700-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 284 g

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

This book examines a sequence of crises in nineteenth-century print culture and offers an original narrative of what it meant to be a Victorian novelist. Easily dismissed at the beginning of the century as hacks who pandered to the ignorant or indolent, novelists by the end of Victoria's reign could be esteemed among the greatest of artists. Between these extremes stretches a century of ideological contention between alternative representations of authorship. Deane brings new attention in his account to the trends in publishing and the expanding market surrounding Victorian literature, such as the new modes of production, arguments over copyright legislation, and revisions of the criteria of periodical criticism. Combining literary sociology and close readings, The Making of the Victorian Novelist offers an innovative history of the material pressures and rhetorical struggles that produced - and ultimately shattered - the Victorians' understanding of their great novelists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deane, Bradley

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Dueling Authorships in the Romantic Period; Chapter 2 Making Friends; Chapter 3 Sympathy's Last Gasp; Chapter 4 The Death of the Victorian Author; Chapter 5 Veiled Women in the Marketplace of Culture; concl Conclusion;

Über Autor(innen)

Bradley Deane