Edging Women Out : Victorian Novelists, Publishers and Social Change

ISBN-13: 9780415533249 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 288 str.

Comp Gaye Tuchman

Opis

Before 1840 there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were women. By the turn of the 20th century, 'men of letters' acclaimed novels as a form of great literature, and most successful novelists were men. Here, Gaye Tuchman examines how men redefined this form of literary expression.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Gaye Tuchman is Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, USA