The formation of the Victorian literary profession /Richard Salmon.
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (xii, 279 pages)
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 87 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Living authors -- Thomas Carlyle and the luminous author -- Thackeray and the novel of literary apprenticeship -- Dickens and the profession of labour -- Broken idols: the development of the working-class author -- Moving statues: the iconography of the 'printing woman' -- Conclusion: The disenchantment of the author.
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English literature--History and criticism.--19th century Authors in literature. Literature and society--History--England--19th century. Authors, English--19th century.