Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian Authorship, 1850-1914.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Easley, Alexis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : University of Delaware Press, 2011.

Summary:

This book explores the phenomenon of literary celebrity in the Victorian era, focusing on the interplay between celebrity culture, gender, and national identity. It examines how popular print media shaped public perceptions of literary figures from 1850 to 1914, creating a narrative that linked authors to national history and social progress. The text delves into the role of women in this cultural landscape, highlighting how they navigated the demands of visibility and privacy in a competitive market. The book also discusses literary tourism and the construction of literary sites, particularly those associated with Charles Dickens, as a means of experiencing cultural heritage. The author's goal is to analyze how literary celebrity contributed to the formation of British national identity and the literary canon during a time of rapid social change. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I Celebrity and Literary Tourism

1 The Virtual City: Literary Tourism and the Construction of “Dickens’s London”

2 The Haunting of Victorian London: Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and George Eliot

3 The Woman of Letters at Home: Harriet Martineau and the Lake District

II Celebrity and Historiography

4 Harriet Martineau: Gender, National Identity, and the Contemporary Historian

5 Rooms of the Past: Victorian Women Writers, History, and the Reconstruction of Domestic Space

III Celebrity and Fin de Siècle Print Culture

6 Women Writers and Celebrity News at the Fin de Siècle

7 Representations of the Authorial Body in the British Medical Journal

8 The Celebrity Cause: Octavia Hill, Virtual Landscapes, and the Press

Coda: Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Canon Formation

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ISBN:

9781644531280

1644531283

OCLC:

1249473566