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020			_a9781139600538 (ebook)
020			_z9781107039629 (hardback)
020			_z9781107566897 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aPR461 _b.S26 2013
082	0	0	_a820.9/008 _223
100	1		_aSalmon, Richard, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Formation of the Victorian Literary Profession / _cRichard Salmon.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (302 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aCambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture ; _v87
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aRichard Salmon provides an original account of the formation of the literary profession during the late Romantic and early Victorian periods. Focusing on the representation of authors in narrative and iconographic texts, including novels, biographies, sketches and portrait galleries, Salmon traces the emergence of authorship as a new form of professional identity from the 1820s to the 1850s. Many first-generation Victorian writers, including Carlyle, Dickens, Thackeray, Martineau and Barrett-Browning, contributed to contemporary debates on the 'Dignity of Literature', professional heroism, and the cultural visibility of the 'man of letters'. This study combines a broad mapping of the early Victorian literary field with detailed readings of major texts. The book argues that the key model of professional development within this period is embodied in the narrative form of literary apprenticeship, which inspired such celebrated works as David Copperfield and Aurora Leigh, and that its formative process is the 'disenchantment of the author'.
650		0	_aAuthors in literature
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107039629
830		0	_aCambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture ; _v87.
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139600538
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37384 _d37384