Literary celebrity, gender, and Victorian authorship, 1850 - 1914

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 an...

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1. Verfasser: Easley, Alexis (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Newark u.a. University of Delaware Press 2011
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:273 S.
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ISBN:9781611490169
978-1-61149-016-9