Making of the Victorian Novelist: Anxieties of Authorship in the Mass Market

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Routledge, 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.
 

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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
Bibliography
157
Index
167
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