Literary celebrity, gender, and Victorian authorship, 1850-1914 [electronic resource] /
Alexis Easley.
- Newark : University of Delaware Press, 2011.
- 273 p. : ill., map, ports.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century Authors and readers--History--Great Britain--19th century. Authorship--Social aspects--History--Great Britain--19th century. Authors, English--19th century. Women authors, English--19th century. Fame--History--19th century. National characteristics, British--History--19th century.