04386oam 2200889I 450 991081692980332120240313022033.01-136-29078-81-283-58716-597866138996130-203-11435-31-136-29079-610.4324/9780203114353 (CKB)2670000000237924(EBL)1016083(OCoLC)810178154(SSID)ssj0000740849(PQKBManifestationID)11421333(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000740849(PQKBWorkID)10701529(PQKB)11317808(MiAaPQ)EBC1016083(Au-PeEL)EBL1016083(CaPaEBR)ebr10596410(CaONFJC)MIL389961(OCoLC)1226773973(FINmELB)ELB143587(EXLCZ)99267000000023792420180706e20121989 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEdging women out Victorian novelists, publishers, and social change /Gaye Tuchman ; with Nina E. Fortin1st ed.London Routledge2012Abingdon, Oxon :Routledge,2012.1 online resource (289 p.)Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature ;v. 13First published in 1989 by Routledge.0-415-75238-8 0-415-53324-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 NovelistsAppendix A The SamplesAppendix B Additional Tables Relevant to Chapter 6; Appendix C Authors' Contracts and Reviews; Bibliography; IndexBefore 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 becauRLE: Women, Feminism and LiteratureEnglish fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismWomen and literatureGreat BritainHistory19th centuryAuthorshipEconomic aspectsGreat BritainHistory19th centuryAuthorshipSocial aspectsGreat BritainHistory19th centuryLiterature and societyGreat BritainHistory19th centuryLiterature publishingGreat BritainHistory19th centuryWomenEmploymentGreat BritainHistory19th centurySocial changeGreat BritainHistory19th centurySex roleGreat BritainHistory19th centuryGreat BritainSocial conditions19th centuryEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Women and literatureHistoryAuthorshipEconomic aspectsHistoryAuthorshipSocial aspectsHistoryLiterature and societyHistoryLiterature publishingHistoryWomenEmploymentHistorySocial changeHistorySex roleHistory823.8099286Tuchman Gaye.710326Fortin Nina E710327MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816929803321Edging women out1334278UNINA