Edging women out : Victorian novelists, publishers, and social change / Gaye Tuchman ; with Nina E. Fortin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tuchman, Gaye, author.

Contributor:

Fortin, Nina E.

Series:

RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature ; v. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

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

Women and literature.

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

Authorship.

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

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

Literature publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature publishing.

Women--Employment--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Women.

Social change--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Social change.

Sex role--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Sex role.

Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2012.

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Before about 1840, there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were women. By the turn of the twentieth century, ""men of letters"" acclaimed novels as a form of great literature, and most critically successful novelists were men. In the book, sociologist Gaye Tuchman examines how men succeeded in redefining a form of culture and in invading a white-collar occupation previously practiced mostly by women.Tuchman documents how men gradually supplanted women as novelists once novel-writing was perceived as potentially profitable, in part becau

Contents:

EDGING WOMEN OUT Victorian Novelists, Publishers, and Social Change; Copyright; Edging Women Out Victorian Novelists, Publishers, and Social Change; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; 1Gender Segregation and the Politics of Culture; 2Writers and the Victorian Publishing System; 3 Novel Writing asan Empty Field; 4Edging Women Out: The High-Culture Novel; 5Who Gained from Industrialization?; 6The Invasion, or How Women Wrote More for Less; 7Macmillan's Contracts with Novelists; 8The Critical Double Standard; 9The Case of the Disappearing Lady Novelists

Appendix A The SamplesAppendix B Additional Tables Relevant to Chapter 6; Appendix C Authors' Contracts and Reviews; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

First published in 1989 by Routledge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-29078-8

1-283-58716-5

9786613899613

0-203-11435-3

1-136-29079-6

9780203114353

OCLC:

810178154