First-Person Anonymous: Women Writers and Victorian Print Media, 1830-1870

ISBN-13: 9780367887766 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 224 str.

Alexis Easley

Opis

This book investigates the role of anonymous periodical journalism in the fashioning of women's authorial identities during the Victorian period. Alexis Easley provides a counterpoint to conventional critical accounts of the period that reduce periodical journalism to a monolithically oppressive domain of power relations - she instead emphasizes t

Recenzje

'... a welcome addition to nineteenth-century literary history... It is a short but dense book, efficiently organized, concisely-written and always thought-provoking, even more interesting as an historical account than a literary study.' Rare Books Newsletter ’Alexis Easley's First-Person Anonymous enhances our understanding of the history of gender and authourship by focusing on anonymous periodical journalism written by nineteenth century women.’ Times Literary Supplement 'Lucid, insightful, and timely, First-Person Anonymous offers much to the reader in both its individual discussions of authors and in its larger project: to increase our understanding of the ways in which women's unsigned writing enabled, rather than hindered, the construction of the Victorian author and women's literary authority.' Victorian Periodicals Review 'This readable and lucid study broadens the horizon of Victorian studies. In contrast to many other publications, it pays attention to different and hitherto neglected genres, in particular the Victorian periodical, and works out the relationship between now canonised novels and poems and rarely read journal articles.' IASL Online '... Alexis Easley's well-researched account of the Victorian woman writer as journalist, makes an important contribution to the history of gender and authorship... this is a well-researched [...] book [...] which will be of interest to students and researchers of Victorian Studies and the history of journalism.' The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Beginnings: the 1830s; Defining women's authorship: Harriet Martineau and the women question; Periodical journalism and the gender reform: Christian Isobel Johnstone; Elizabeth Gaskell, urban investigation, and the 'abused' woman writer; Gender and representation: George Eliot in the 1850s and 60s; Christina Rossetti and the problem of literary fame; Afterword; Works cited; Index.

O autorze

Alexis Easley is Professor or English at University of St. Thomas.