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Author:

Salmon, Richard, 1965-

Title:

The formation of the Victorian literary profession / Richard Salmon.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Authors in literature.
Literature and society--England--History--19th century.
Authors, English--19th century.
England--Intellectual life--19th century.
Authors.
Authors, English.
English literature.
Intellectual life.
Literature.
Literature and society.
England.
1800 - 1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-273) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Living authors -- Thomas Carlyle and the luminous author -- Thackeray and the novel of literary apprenticeship -- Dickens and the profession of labour -- Broken idols: the development of the working-class author -- Moving statues: the iconography of the 'printing woman' -- Conclusion: The disenchantment of the author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 87

ISBN:

1107039622 (hardback)
9781107039629 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)830992474

LCCN:

2013005738

Locations:

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

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

FJPC224 -- Elkader Public Library (Elkader)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)