Literary celebrity, gender, and Victorian authorship, 1850-1914
By: Alexis Easley
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781936249015
Subjects: English literature; Authors and readers; History and criticism; English Authors; British National characteristics; Authorship; English Women authors; Fame; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: Coda: literary celebrity, gender, and canon formation.