Men and women of letters
aspects of the formation of Victorian professional authors
Keywords:
Authorship; Geoge Henry Lewes; Thomas Carlyle; Harriet Martineau; Gender.Abstract
This article analyzes: (a) the development of an editorial market that transforms the trajectory of writers as professionals, and (b) the different spheres of action available to women in British public life. It is possible to underscore exemples of writers such as George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle and Harriet Martineau, to perceive in their texts important aspects for understanding how they formulatte authorship as a concept and as a social function, and to trace the interactions of authorship and gender.
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CARLYLE, Thomas. SORENSEN, David R; KINSE, Brent E. (eds.) On heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history [recurso eletrônico]. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.
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FELTES, N. N. Modes of production of Victorian novels. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
GEDDES POOLE, Andrea. Philanthropy and the construction of Victorian women’s citizenship: Lady Frederick Cavendish and Miss Emma Cons [recurso eletrônico]. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
HACK, Daniel. The material interests of the Victorian novel. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005.
HADJIAFXENDI, Kyriaki; ZAKRESKI, Patricia. Crafting the woman professional in the long nineteenth century: Artistry and industry in Britain [recurso eletrônico]. Burlington: Ashgate, 2013.
LEWES, George Henry. The condition of authors in England, Germany, and France. Fraser’s Magazine. Londres, Vol. 35, 1847. Disponível em https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/search?q1=condition;id=nyp.33433081676938;view=1up;seq=9;start=1;sz=10;page=search;orient=0. Acesso em 24 de dezembro de 2019
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PETTITT, Clare. Patent inventions: Intellectual property and the Victorian novel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
POOVEY, Mary. Uneven developments: The ideological work of gender in mid-Victorian England. Londres: Virago, 1989.
RUSSETT, Cynthia Eagle. Sexual science: The Victorian construction of womanhood. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.
SALMON, Richard. The formation of the Victorian literary profession. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
SISKIN, Clifford. The work of writing: Literature and social change in Britain, 1700-1830. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
SORENSEN, David. R. Introduction. In: CARLYLE, Thomas. ______; KINSE, Brent E. (eds.) On heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history [recurso eletrônico]. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013
SUTHERLAND, John. Victorian fiction: Writers, publishers, readers. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2006.
WEEDON, Alexis. Victorian publishing: The economics of book production for a mass market, 1836-1916. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.
WORSLEY, Lucy. Queen Victoria: Daughter, wife, mother, widow [recurso eletrônico]. Londres: Hodder & Stoughton, 2018.
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2022-09-09
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Costa, M. C. da . (2022). Men and women of letters: aspects of the formation of Victorian professional authors. Todas As Letras - Revista De Língua E Literatura, 24(2), 1–18. Retrieved from http://editorarevistas.mackenzie.br/index.php/tl/article/view/15332
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