This study examines literary celebrity in Britain from 1850 to 1914 with chapters focused on a variety of Victorian authors, including Charles Dickens, Harriet Martineau, and Octavia Hill. Through lively analysis of rare cultural materials, Easley demonstrates the crucial role of the celebrity author in the formation of British national identity. As Victorians toured the homes and haunts of famous writers, they developed a sense of shared national heritage. At the same time, by reading sensational accounts of writers' lives, they were able to reconsider conventional gender roles and domestic arrangements. Women writers capitalized on celebrity media as a way of furthering their own careers and retelling British history on their own terms. Easley demonstrates how the trope of the literary celebrity was utilized for other purposes as well, including the professionalization of medicine, the development of the open space movement, and the formation of the literary canon.

Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian Authorship, 1850-1914

Literature & Fiction

Easley, Alexis

History & Criticism

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In Citoyennes, Annie Smart argues that many revolutionary and pre-revolutionary works constructed a civic identity for women and portrayed the home as a site for both civic virtue and private subjectivity. This interdisciplinary study offers a fresh interpretation of the role of women and the home in eighteenth-century France, and goes a long way to filling a gaping home in the contemporary literature on the subject.

CITOYENNES:WOMEN & THE IDEAL OF CITIZENS

History

Smart, Annie

Europe

Notorious Facts examines the sensationalistic confounding of persons and principles in the public life of Romantic England (1780-1830) by examining the role and scope of publicity.

NOTORIOUS FACTS:PUBLICITY IN ROMANTIC EN

Mulvihill, James

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