Formation of the Victorian Literary Profession

Informationen zum Autor Richard Salmon is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Leeds, where he has taught Victorian and Romantic literature since 1996. Klappentext A fascinating study into the development of the Victorian literary profession that examines literary and visual representations of authorship. Zusammenfassung Richard Salmon offers a major study of the development of professional authorship in Victorian Britain. Drawing on detailed readings of significant writers! including Carlyle! Dickens! Thackeray! Martineau and Barrett-Browning! this book traces the emergence of authorship as a new form of professional identity from the 1820s to the 1850s. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: living authors; 2. Thomas Carlyle and the luminous author; 3. Thackeray and the novel of literary apprenticeship; 4. Dickens and the profession of labour; 5. Broken idols: the development of the working-class author; 6. Moving statues: the iconography of the 'printing woman'; 7. Conclusion: the disenchantment of the author.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Salmon
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2013
• EAN: 9781107039629
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03962-9
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Publishing industry & book trade