Literary celebrity, gender, and Victorian authorship, 1850-1914 [electronic resource] / Alexis Easley.
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TextPublication details: Newark : University of Delaware Press, 2011.Description: 273 p. : ill., map, portsSubject(s): - English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Authorship -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Authors, English -- 19th century
- Women authors, English -- 19th century
- Fame -- History -- 19th century
- National characteristics, British -- History -- 19th century
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- PR461 .E37 2011eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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