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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790402403321

Autore

Dillane Fionnuala

Titolo

Before George Eliot : Marian Evans and the periodical press / / Fionnuala Dillane [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-139-89255-X

1-107-42447-X

1-107-42252-3

1-316-60097-1

1-107-42059-8

1-139-56515-X

1-107-41673-6

1-107-41939-5

1-107-41811-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 269 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; ; 88

Classificazione

LIT004120

Disciplina

823/.8

Soggetti

Journalism - Authorship - History - 19th century

Press - England - History - 19th century

Periodicals - Publishing - England - History - 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: Marian Evans and the periodical press -- "The character of editress" : Marian Evans at the Westminster review -- "Working for one's bread" : Marian Evans the journalist -- Staging "scenes" in Blackwood's magazine : melodrama, narrative voice and the Blackwood's man -- After Marian Evans : the importance of being George Eliot -- Last impressions : Marian Evans takes on her audience.

Sommario/riassunto

Fionnuala Dillane revisits the first decade of Marian Evans's working life to explore the influence of the periodical press on her emergence as George Eliot and on her subsequent responses to fame. This interdisciplinary study discusses the significance of Evans's work as a journalist, editor and serial-fiction writer in the periodical press from the late 1840s to the late 1850s and positions this early career against



critical responses to Evans's later literary persona, George Eliot. Dillane argues that Evans's association with the nineteenth-century periodical industry, that dominant cultural force of the age, is important for its illumination of  Evans's understanding of the formation of reading audiences, the development of literary genres and the cultivation of literary celebrity.