Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.