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Author:

Easley, Alexis, 1963-

Title:

Literary celebrity, gender, and Victorian authorship, 1850-1914 / Alexis Easley.

Publisher:

University of Delaware Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

273 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Authors and readers--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Authorship--History--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Authors, English--19th century.
Women authors, English--19th century.
Fame--History--19th century.
National characteristics, British--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

1936249014 (alk. paper)
9781936249015 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)627701034

LCCN:

2010020827

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)