Edging women out : Victorian novelists, publishers and social change /
Before about 1840, there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were women. By the turn of the twentieth century, ""men of letters"" acclaimed novels as a form of great literature, and most critically successful novelists were men. In th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2012.
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Colección: | Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature ;
v. 13. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Gender segregation and the politics of culture
- 2. Writers and the Victorian publishing system
- 3. Novel writing as an empty field
- 4. Edging women out : the high-culture novel
- 5. Who gained from industrialization?
- 6. The invasion, or, How women wrote more for less
- 7. Macmillan's contracts with novelists
- 8. The critical double standard
- 9. The case of the disappearing lady novelists.