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Literary celebrity, gender, and Victorian authorship, 1850-1914

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Main Author: Easley, Alexis, 1963-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : University of Delaware Press, 2011.
Subjects:
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Authors and readers > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Authorship > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Authors, English > 19th century.
Women authors, English > 19th century.
Fame > History > 19th century.
National characteristics, British > History > 19th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: celebrity and literary tourism. The virtual city: literary tourism and the construction of "Dickens's London"; the haunting of Victorian London: Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and George Eliot; the woman of letters at home: Harriet Martineau and the Lake District
  • Part II: Celebrity and historiography. Harriet Martineau: gender, national identity, and the contemporary historian; rooms of the past: Victorian women writers, history, and the reconstruction of domestic space
  • Part III: Celebrity and fin de siecle print culture. Women writers and celebrity news at the fin de siecle; representations of the authorial body in the British medical journal; the celebrity cause: Octavia Hill, virtual landscapes and the press
  • Coda: literary celebrity, gender, and canon formation.

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