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Literature in English, British Isles

Selected Works

Victorian literature

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"Long, Long Disappointment": Maternal Failure And Masculine Exhaustion In Margaret Oliphant’S Autobiography, Laura Green Sep 2013

"Long, Long Disappointment": Maternal Failure And Masculine Exhaustion In Margaret Oliphant’S Autobiography, Laura Green

Laura Green

No abstract provided.


Publishing The Victorian Novel, Rachel Buurma Jul 2013

Publishing The Victorian Novel, Rachel Buurma

Rachel S Buurma

“Publishing the Victorian Novel” looks to the methods of book history and literary criticism to ask how we might understand the ways Victorian publishers and authors (alongside editors, publishers’ readers, librarians, and booksellers) worked together to make novels. Paying attention to both the material and literary aspects of this making, the essay examines a few different scenes of novel publication with a particular focus on the way Victorian novelists, publishers, and reading publics understood aspects of the publication process like the serialization of novels, the three-volume novel, and the authority of the novelist and publisher. In an attempt to capture …


Review Of A Return To The Common Reader: Print Culture And The Novel, 1850-1900, A. Buckland And B. Palmer Eds., Rachel Buurma Sep 2011

Review Of A Return To The Common Reader: Print Culture And The Novel, 1850-1900, A. Buckland And B. Palmer Eds., Rachel Buurma

Rachel S Buurma

http://www.nbol-19.org/view_doc.php?index=186


Ephemeral Forms: E.S. Dallas, Novel Reading, And The Victorian Review, Rachel Buurma Dec 2007

Ephemeral Forms: E.S. Dallas, Novel Reading, And The Victorian Review, Rachel Buurma

Rachel S Buurma

No abstract provided.


Anonyma’S Authors, Rachel Buurma Dec 2007

Anonyma’S Authors, Rachel Buurma

Rachel S Buurma

No abstract provided.


Anonymity, Corporate Authority And The Archive: The Production Of Authorship In Late-Victorian England, Rachel Buurma Dec 2006

Anonymity, Corporate Authority And The Archive: The Production Of Authorship In Late-Victorian England, Rachel Buurma

Rachel S Buurma

This essay considers the persistence of collective and corporate models of literary authority within late-Victorian literature and print culture. While modern critics often understand Victorian authorship to be individually centered and governed by a dynamic of secrecy and disclosure, the periodical debates about anonymity that intensified in the fin de siècle suggest that Victorian readers and writers embraced a more flexible, collective notion of authorship. The plot, language, and paratext of Mary Elizabeth Hawker's pseudonymously published Mademoiselle Ixe, as well as the author-publisher correspondence concerning the novel, offer a representation of the corporate and collective interpretive modes that would have …