The Formation of the Victorian Literary Profession

ISBN-13: 9781107039629 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 302 str.

Richard Salmon

Opis

A fascinating study into the development of the Victorian literary profession that examines literary and visual representations of authorship.

Recenzje

'Salmon is good on nuance and at his best when teasing out the mixed messages and anxieties expressed by Victorians about authorship.' Standpoint

Spis treści

1. Introduction: living authors; 2. Thomas Carlyle and the luminous author; 3. Thackeray and the novel of literary apprenticeship; 4. Dickens and the profession of labour; 5. Broken idols: the development of the working-class author; 6. Moving statues: the iconography of the 'printing woman'; 7. Conclusion: the disenchantment of the author.