Making of the Victorian Novelist
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Captain Clutterbuck
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copyright law history
Copyright Reform
Count Fosco
Currer Bell
Drawn Back
early
Early Victorian Novelists
Eliot's Realism
Eliot’s Realism
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Essay Supplementary
Flagrant Indifference
Industrial Romanticism
Introductory Epistle
James's Narrative
James’s Narrative
literary
literary sociology
mary
nineteenth century literature
Nonalienated Labor
novelists
novels
Penny Magazine
periodical criticism
Pickwick Club
Pickwick Papers
Pleasing Intelligence
Princess Casamassima
print culture studies
River Head
Samuel Pickwick
sensation
Sensation Fiction
Sensation Novels
Timeless
Unknown Public
Victorian publishing transformations
waverley
Writer Reader Relations
Product details
- ISBN 9780415940207
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Dec 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 ideological contention between alternative representations of authorship. Deane brings new attention in his account to the trends in publishing and the expanding market surrounding Victorian literature, such as the new modes of production, arguments over copyright legislation, and revisions of the criteria of periodical criticism. Combining literary sociology and close readings, The Making of the Victorian Novelist offers an innovative history of the material pressures and rhetorical struggles that produced - and ultimately shattered - the Victorians' understanding of their great novelists.
