1st Edition
Edging Women Out Victorian Novelists, Publishers and Social Change
By Gaye Tuchman
Copyright 1989
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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Before about 1840, there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were women. By the turn of the twentieth century, "men of letters" acclaimed novels as a form of great literature, and most critically successful novelists were men. In the book, sociologist Gaye Tuchman examines how men succeeded in redefining a form of culture and in invading a... Read more
1. Gender Segregation and the Politics of Culture 2. Writers and the Victorian Publishing System 3. Novel Writing as an Empty Field 4. Edging Women Out: The High-Culture Novel 5. Who Gained from Industrialization? 6. The Invasion, or How Women Wrote More for Less 7. Macmillan’s Contracts with Novelists 8. The Critical Double Standard 9. The Case of the Disappearing Lady Novelists. Appendix A: The Samples. Appendix B: Additional Tables. Appendix C: Authors’ Contracts and Reviews
Biography
Gaye Tuchman is Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, USA
