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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826212803321

Autore

Deane Bradley <1971->

Titolo

The making of the Victorian novelist : anxieties of authorship in the mass market / / Bradley Deane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-37399-X

0-203-95390-8

1-135-37392-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Collana

Literary criticism and cultural theory : outstanding dissertations

Disciplina

823/.809

Soggetti

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

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

Literature publishing - Great Britain - History - 19th century

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

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

Novelists, English - 19th century - Economic conditions

Novelists, English - 19th century - Psychology

Authorship - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-165) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Literary Criticism andCultural Theory; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One Dueling Authorships in the Romantic Period: The Author of Waverley and the Great Unknown; The Prophet Margin; "The Ordinary Business of the World"; The Uses of Waverley; Two Making Friends: Dickens, Pickwick, and Industrial Romanticism; Editing Authorship; The Messenger Is the Message; Serialization and the Code of Production; Three Sympathy's Last Gasp: The Professional Body and the Disease of Sensationalism; Romancing King Public; The Making of an Outcast Genre

Rereading the Sympathetic BodyFour The Death of the Victorian Author: Mastery and Mystery in James's The Princess Casamassima; Anarchy and Artisans; Sympathy and Appreciation; The Suicide of the Author; Five Veiled Women in the Marketplace of Culture: Authorships and Domesticities in Gaskell and Eliot; Domesticity and Demagoguery;



Authorship in the Parrot-House; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.