Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines

About the author

Maria Damkjær is an Associate Professor in English at the University of Copenhagen. She received her PhD degree from King's College London in 2013, and published her first book Time, Domesticity and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain in 2016. She has received numerous grants and awards, including a Carlsberg fellowship and a teaching award. Her work centres on nineteenth-century literature, print culture, material culture, and the periodical
press.

Summary

This book uncovers the genre mixing of the Victorian era's mass media, and argues that authors like Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Augustus Sala had to reckon with the commercial needs of print and of narrative fiction.

Product details

• Authors: Damkjaer , Damkjær, Maria Damkjær, Maria (Associate Professor Damkjr
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.12.2024
• EAN: 9780198936053
• ISBN: 978-0-19-893605-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, 1837–1901 (Victorian period), Advertising & Society, Media studies: advertising and society, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form