Salmon, Richard,

The formation of the Victorian literary profession / Richard Salmon. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013 - 279 p. - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture .

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. HKBU library

YT2025 M09

9781107039629


English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Authors in literature.
Literature and society--History--England--19th century.
Authors, English--19th century.


England--Intellectual life--19th century.

PR461 / S171 F 2013