Literary celebrity, gender, and Victorian authorship, 1850-1914 / Alexis Easley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Easley, Alexis, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Authors and readers--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Authors and readers.

National characteristics, British.

History.

Fame.

Women authors, English.

Authorship--Social aspects.

Authorship.

Great Britain.

Authorship--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Authors, English--19th century.

Authors, English.

Women authors, English--19th century.

Fame--History--19th century.

National characteristics, British--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2011]

Contents:

Introduction

Part I: celebrity and literary tourism. The virtual city: literary tourism and the construction of "Dickens's London"; the haunting of Victorian London: Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and George Eliot; the woman of letters at home: Harriet Martineau and the Lake District

Part II: Celebrity and historiography. Harriet Martineau: gender, national identity, and the contemporary historian; rooms of the past: Victorian women writers, history, and the reconstruction of domestic space

Part III: Celebrity and fin de siecle print culture. Women writers and celebrity news at the fin de siecle; representations of the authorial body in the British medical journal; the celebrity cause: Octavia Hill, virtual landscapes and the press

Coda: literary celebrity, gender, and canon formation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611490169

1611490162

9781936249015

1936249014

9781611490176

1611490170

OCLC:

627701034