Before George Eliot - Marian Evans and the Periodical Press

Informationen zum Autor Fionnuala Dillane researches and teaches at the School of English, Drama and Film Studies, University College Dublin. Klappentext A revisionary study of the impact of Marian Evans's early periodical-press career on her later success as a novelist. Zusammenfassung The first study of Marian Evans's career as a journalist! editor and serial-fiction writer arguing the importance of periodical culture in the making of 'George Eliot'. It considers the limits of her pseudonymous identity and charts her move to vocal criticism of celebrity culture and the power of the press. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Marian Evans and the periodical press; 1. 'The character of editress': Marian Evans at the Westminster Review; 2. 'Working for one's bread': Marian Evans the journalist; 3. Staging 'Scenes' in Blackwood's Magazine: melodrama, narrative voice and the Blackwood's Man; 4. After Marian Evans: the importance of being George Eliot; 5. Last impressions: Marian Evans takes on her audience.

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• Authors: Fionnuala Dillane, Fionnuala (University College Dublin) Dillane, Dillane Fionnuala
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2016
• EAN: 9781316600979
• ISBN: 978-1-316-60097-9
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Cultural Studies, English, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers