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The Dynamics of Genre : Journalism and the Practice of Literature in Mid-Victorian Britain.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Victorian Literature and Culture SeriesPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (249 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813930428
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Dynamics of GenreDDC classification:
  • 820.9/008
LOC classification:
  • PR461 -- .L45 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PROLOGUE -- 1. THE POET'S TALE: Literature, Journalism, and Genre in 1855 -- 2. THE AUTHORESS'S TALE: The Triumph of Journalism in Harriet Martineau's Autobiography -- 3. THE EDITOR'S TALE: Anthony Trollope and the Historiography of the Mid-Victorian Press -- 4. THE REVIEWER'S TALE: George Eliot and the End(s) of Journalistic Apprenticeship -- 5. THE CLERGYMAN'S TALE: Sensation Fiction and the Anatomy of a "Nine Days' Wonder -- 6. THE SCHOLARS' TALES: Theories of Journalism and the Practice of Literary History -- EPILOGUE: The Tale of the "Owls": Literature, Journalism, and Genre after 1865 -- APPENDIX A: Correspondence Sections of the Monthly Repository, vol. 17, nos. 201-3, September-November 1822 -- APPENDIX B: Representations of the Periodical Press in Anthony Trollope's Works -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: Liddle argues that successful interpretation of the works of these and many other authors will be fully possible only when scholars learn to understand the journalistic genre forms with which mid-Victorian literary forms interacted and competed.
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Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PROLOGUE -- 1. THE POET'S TALE: Literature, Journalism, and Genre in 1855 -- 2. THE AUTHORESS'S TALE: The Triumph of Journalism in Harriet Martineau's Autobiography -- 3. THE EDITOR'S TALE: Anthony Trollope and the Historiography of the Mid-Victorian Press -- 4. THE REVIEWER'S TALE: George Eliot and the End(s) of Journalistic Apprenticeship -- 5. THE CLERGYMAN'S TALE: Sensation Fiction and the Anatomy of a "Nine Days' Wonder -- 6. THE SCHOLARS' TALES: Theories of Journalism and the Practice of Literary History -- EPILOGUE: The Tale of the "Owls": Literature, Journalism, and Genre after 1865 -- APPENDIX A: Correspondence Sections of the Monthly Repository, vol. 17, nos. 201-3, September-November 1822 -- APPENDIX B: Representations of the Periodical Press in Anthony Trollope's Works -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Liddle argues that successful interpretation of the works of these and many other authors will be fully possible only when scholars learn to understand the journalistic genre forms with which mid-Victorian literary forms interacted and competed.

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