Alexis Easley

New Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman Writer, 1832-1860

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Produktbeschreibung

This book highlights the integral relationship between the rise of the popular woman writer and the expansion and diversification of newspaper, book and periodical print media during a period of revolutionary change, 1832 1860.

Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781474475938
• ISBN-10: 1474475930
• Artikelnr.: 63922585

Autorenporträt

Alexis Easley is Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of First-Person Anonymous: Women Writers and Victorian Print Media, 1830-70 (2004) and Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian Authorship, 1850-1914 (2011). She has also co-edited four books, most recently Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s, with Clare Gill and Beth Rodgers (2019). Her most recent book publication is New Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman Writer, 1832-60 (2021). This project was a 2019 recipient of the Linda H. Peterson Prize awarded by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. She is currently at work on a biography of Eliza Cook.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Felicia Hemans and the Birth of the Mass-Market Woman Poet
2. Eliza Cook, New Media Innovator
3. George Eliot, the Brontës and the Market for Poetry
4. Women Writers and Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
5. Frances Brown and the 'Modern' Market for Print
6. Scrapbooks and Women's Reading Practices
Coda
Bibliography
Index.