1st Edition

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

By Bradley Deane Copyright 2003
188 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Chapter 1 Dueling Authorships in the Romantic Period; Chapter 2 Making Friends; Chapter 3 Sympathy's Last Gasp; Chapter 4 The Death of the Victorian Author; Chapter 5 Veiled Women in the Marketplace of Culture; concl Conclusion;

Biography

Bradley Deane

"...this book offers some interesting insights." -- Choice