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Before George Eliot : Marian Evans and the periodical press /
"This interdisciplinary study discusses the significance of Evans's work as a journalist, editor and serial-fiction writer in the periodical press from the late 1840s to the late 1850s and positions this early career against critical responses to Evans's later literary persona, George...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
88. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Content and form: the periodical's 'habitus'; From Marian Evans to George Eliot; Chapter 1 'The character of Editress'; The 'character of Editress'; Making new markets from the margins: Marian Evans at the letterpress; Chapter 2 'Working for one's bread'; 'Literature in morsels': the journalist at mid century; Early writings: the Coventry Herald and Observer 1846-1849; 'Working for one's bread': Marian Evans's London journalism, 1855-1857; Riehl, realism and the metropolitan critic; Chapter 3 Staging 'Scenes' in Blackwood's Magazine.
- Becoming George Eliot: 'a tub to throw to the whale'Narrating scenes: the Blackwood's voice; 'Old ladyMaga': gender, genre and the 'George Eliot' game; Staging 'scenes' in Blackwood's Magazine; Conclusion; Chapter 4 After Marian Evans; Embodied authenticity versus 'counterfeit presentment'; The importance of being 'George Eliot'; Chapter 5 Last impressions; Creating Impressions; Resisting Impressions: 'What had become of Mrs Poyser'?; The character Theophrastus; Origins, originality and the circulation of knowledge: lessons with Theophrastus; Conclusion: Marian Evans takes on her audience.
- Appendix1. George Eliot's prose writings for periodicals and newspapers; 1846; 1847; 1849; 1851; 1852; 1854; 1855; 1856; 1857; 1859; 1862-63; 1864; 1865; 1868; 2. Editions of George Eliot's periodical writings; 3. Other works by George Eliot; Notes; Bibliography; Index.