Making of the Victorian Novelist: Anxieties of Authorship in the Mass MarketRoutledge, 15 paź 2013 - 188 This book examines a sequence of crises in nineteenth-century print culture and offers an original narrative of what it meant to be a Victorian novelist. Easily dismissed at the beginning of the century as hacks who pandered to the ignorant or indolent, novelists by the end of Victoria's reign could be esteemed among the greatest of artists. Between these extremes stretches a century of ideological contention between alternative representations of authorship. Deane brings new attention in his account to the trends in publishing and the expanding market surrounding Victorian literature, such as the new modes of production, arguments over copyright legislation, and revisions of the criteria of periodical criticism. Combining literary sociology and close readings, The Making of the Victorian Novelist offers an innovative history of the material pressures and rhetorical struggles that produced - and ultimately shattered - the Victorians' understanding of their great novelists. |
Spis treści
The Author of Waverley and the Great Unknown | 1 |
Dickens Pickwick and Industrial Romanticism | 27 |
The Professional Body and the Disease of Sensationalism | 59 |
Mastery and Mystery in Jamess The Princess Casamassima | 91 |
Authorships and Domesticities in Gaskell and Eliot | 113 |
Conclusion | 139 |
Notes | 143 |
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