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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462303103321

Autore

Tuchman Gaye

Titolo

Edging women out : Victorian novelists, publishers, and social change / / Gaye Tuchman ; with Nina E. Fortin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-58716-5

9786613899613

0-203-11435-3

1-136-29079-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature ; ; v. 13

Altri autori (Persone)

FortinNina E

Disciplina

823.8099286

Soggetti

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Authorship - Economic aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Authorship - Social aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Literature publishing - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Women - Employment - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Social change - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Sex role - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Great Britain Social conditions 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1989 by Routledge.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

EDGING WOMEN OUT Victorian Novelists, Publishers, and Social Change; Copyright; Edging Women Out Victorian Novelists, Publishers, and Social Change; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; 1Gender Segregation and  the Politics of Culture; 2Writers and the Victorian Publishing System; 3 Novel Writing asan Empty Field; 4Edging Women Out: The High-Culture Novel; 5Who Gained from Industrialization?; 6The Invasion, or How Women  Wrote More for Less; 7Macmillan's Contracts  with Novelists; 8The Critical Double Standard; 9The Case of the Disappearing Lady Novelists



Appendix A The SamplesAppendix B Additional Tables Relevant to Chapter 6; Appendix C Authors' Contracts and Reviews; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Before about 1840, there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were women. By the turn of the twentieth century, ""men of letters"" acclaimed novels as a form of great literature, and most critically successful novelists were men. In the book, sociologist Gaye Tuchman examines how men succeeded in redefining a form of culture and in invading a white-collar occupation previously practiced mostly by women.Tuchman documents how men gradually supplanted women as novelists once novel-writing was perceived as potentially profitable, in part becau