The dynamics of genre : journalism and the practice of literature in mid-Victorian Britain / Dallas Liddle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liddle, Dallas, 1963-

Series:

Victorian literature and culture series.

Victorian literature and culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English literature.

Journalism and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Journalism and literature.

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

Authors and publishers.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Liddle argues that successful interpretation of the works of these and many other authors will be fully possible only when scholars learn to understand the journalistic genre forms with which mid-Victorian literary forms interacted and competed.

Contents:

The poet's tale : literature, journalism, and genre in 1855

The authoress's tale : the triumph of journalism in Harriet Martineau's Autobiography

The editor's tale : Anthony Trollope and the historiography of the mid-Victorian press

The reviewer's tale : George Eliot and the end(s) of journalistic apprenticeship

The clergyman's tale : sensation fiction and the anatomy of a "nine days' wonder"

The scholars' tales : theories of journalism and the practice of literary history

Epilogue : the tale of the "owls" : literature, journalism, and genre after 1865.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813930428

0813930421

OCLC:

755621987