Before George Eliot: Marian Evans and the Periodical Press

ISBN-13: 9781107035652 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 290 str.

Fionnuala Dillane

Opis

Revisionary study of the impact of Marian Evans's early periodical-press career on her later success as a novelist.

Recenzje

"In her extended portrait of Marian Evans as an astute and flexible professional in the periodical marketplace, Fionnuala Dillane offers a welcome corrective to the image of George Eliot as a reclusive sibyl … Dillane’s grounding of Evans’s many narrative personae in specific practices of her periodical culture also serves to dislodge the stubborn image of Eliot as the goddess of sympathy. Dillane is refreshingly skeptical about that image, creating in its stead a writer alert to what her public required and strategic about accommodating her variable styles to those needs."
Rosemarie Bodenheimer, Victorian Studies

Spis treści

Introduction: Marian Evans and the periodical press; 1. 'The character of editress': Marian Evans at the Westminster Review; 2. 'Working for one's bread': Marian Evans the journalist; 3. Staging 'Scenes' in Blackwood's Magazine: melodrama, narrative voice and the Blackwood's Man; 4. After Marian Evans: the importance of being George Eliot; 5. Last impressions: Marian Evans takes on her audience.