1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453135003321

Autore

Salmon Richard <1965->

Titolo

The formation of the Victorian literary profession / / Richard Salmon [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-139-89298-3

1-107-42291-4

1-107-56689-4

1-107-41722-8

1-107-42104-7

1-107-41979-4

1-139-60053-2

1-107-41849-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 279 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; ; 87

Disciplina

820.9/008

Soggetti

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Authors in literature

Literature and society - England - History - 19th century

Authors, English - 19th century

England Intellectual life 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Living authors -- Thomas Carlyle and the luminous author -- Thackeray and the novel of literary apprenticeship -- Dickens and the profession of labour -- Broken idols: the development of the working-class author -- Moving statues: the iconography of the 'printing woman' -- Conclusion: The disenchantment of the author.

Sommario/riassunto

Richard Salmon provides an original account of the formation of the literary profession during the late Romantic and early Victorian periods. Focusing on the representation of authors in narrative and iconographic texts, including novels, biographies, sketches and portrait galleries, Salmon traces the emergence of authorship as a new form of professional identity from the 1820s to the 1850s. Many first-



generation Victorian writers, including Carlyle, Dickens, Thackeray, Martineau and Barrett-Browning, contributed to contemporary debates on the 'Dignity of Literature', professional heroism, and the cultural visibility of the 'man of letters'. This study combines a broad mapping of the early Victorian literary field with detailed readings of major texts. The book argues that the key model of professional development within this period is embodied in the narrative form of literary apprenticeship, which inspired such celebrated works as David Copperfield and Aurora Leigh, and that its formative process is the 'disenchantment of the author'.

2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00003962

Autore

MACKERRAS, Colin P.

Titolo

Western images of China / Colin Mackerras

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hong Kong, : Oxford University Pre ss, 1989

ISBN

01-958491-6-7

Descrizione fisica

VIII, 333 p. ; 22 cm

Classificazione

CIN I

Soggetti

CINA - OPINIONI PUBBLICHE STRANIERE - OCCIDENTE

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia