Making of the Victorian Novelist Making of the Victorian Novelist
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Making of the Victorian Novelist

Anxieties of Authorship in the Mass Market

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2013
15 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
188
Pages
PUBLISHER
Taylor & Francis
SIZE
1.8
MB

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