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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818724203321

Autore

Liddle Dallas <1963->

Titolo

The dynamics of genre : journalism and the practice of literature in mid-Victorian Britain / / Dallas Liddle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8139-3042-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Victorian literature and culture series

Disciplina

820.9/008

Soggetti

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc

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

Authors and publishers - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The poet's tale : literature, journalism, and genre in 1855 -- The authoress's tale : the triumph of journalism in Harriet Martineau's Autobiography -- The editor's tale : Anthony Trollope and the historiography of the mid-Victorian press -- The reviewer's tale : George Eliot and the end(s) of journalistic apprenticeship -- The clergyman's tale : sensation fiction and the anatomy of a "nine days' wonder" -- The scholars' tales : theories of journalism and the practice of literary history -- Epilogue : the tale of the "owls" : literature, journalism, and genre after 1865.

Sommario/riassunto

Liddle argues that successful interpretation of the works of these and many other authors will be fully possible only when scholars learn to understand the journalistic genre forms with which mid-Victorian literary forms interacted and competed.