| Before George Eliot: Marian Evans and the Periodical Press Contributor(s): Dillane, Fionnuala (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107416736 ISBN-13: 9781107416734 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $106.25 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: May 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 823.8 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu |
| Physical Information: 290 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fionnuala Dillane revisits the first decade of Marian Evans's working life to explore the influence of the periodical press on her emergence as George Eliot and on her subsequent responses to fame. 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 Eliot. Dillane argues that Evans's association with the nineteenth-century periodical industry, that dominant cultural force of the age, is important for its illumination of Evans's understanding of the formation of reading audiences, the development of literary genres and the cultivation of literary celebrity. |