The formation of the Victorian literary profession / / Richard Salmon [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Salmon Richard <1965->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 279 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 820.9/008
• Soggetto topico: English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Authors in literature; Literature and society - England - History - 19th century; Authors, English - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: England Intellectual life 19th century
• 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: Living authors -- Thomas Carlyle and the luminous author -- Thackeray and the novel of literary apprenticeship -- Dickens and the profession of labour -- Broken idols: the development of the working-class author -- Moving statues: the iconography of the 'printing woman' -- Conclusion: The disenchantment of the author.
• Sommario/riassunto: Richard Salmon provides an original account of the formation of the literary profession during the late Romantic and early Victorian periods. Focusing on the representation of authors in narrative and iconographic texts, including novels, biographies, sketches and portrait galleries, Salmon traces the emergence of authorship as a new form of professional identity from the 1820s to the 1850s. Many first-generation Victorian writers, including Carlyle, Dickens, Thackeray, Martineau and Barrett-Browning, contributed to contemporary debates on the 'Dignity of Literature', professional heroism, and the cultural visibility of the 'man of letters'. This study combines a broad mapping of the early Victorian literary field with detailed readings of major texts. The book argues that the key model of professional development within this period is embodied in the narrative form of literary apprenticeship, which inspired such celebrated works as David Copperfield and Aurora Leigh, and that its formative process is the 'disenchantment of the author'.
• Titolo autorizzato: Formation of the Victorian literary profession
• ISBN: 1-139-89298-3; 1-107-42291-4; 1-107-56689-4; 1-107-41722-8; 1-107-42104-7; 1-107-41979-4; 1-139-60053-2; 1-107-41849-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824893303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; ; 87.