Easley, Alexis, 1963-

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.


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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.


Electronic books.

PR461 / .E37 2011eb

820.9/355