| Description |
xvi, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. "A Low, Cheap Form of Publication": Charles Dickens, the Coming of Pickwick, and Murder by the Book -- Pt. 2. "It Would Never Suit the Circulating Libraries": Jane Eyre, Vanity Fair, and the Three-Volume Straitjacket -- Pt. 3. "What Shall I Be Without My Father?": Women Novelists in the London of Dickens and Thackeray, the Coming of Real Money, and the Novel Becomes Respectable -- Pt. 4. "Do Let Me Abuse Mr Newby": Literary Executors, Gossip Columnists, and the Emergence of the Novelist as Celebrity -- Pt. 5. "Terror to the End": The Sensation Novel, Dickens "Dreadfully Shattered," and Anthony Trollope Gets a Traveling Bag and an Audience -- Pt. 6. "We Are a Novel-Reading Country": Middlemarch and Mr. Mudie's Library, the Novel Apparently Triumphant, but Henry James Fails, Ominously, to Write a Happy Ending |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [252]-265) and index |
| Subject |
Authors and publishers -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Authors and readers -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Books and reading -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction -- Authorship -- Economic aspects -- England.
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Literature and society -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Authorship -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature publishing -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Economic conditions.
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Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Social conditions.
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| SUBJECT |
England -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043304
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| LC no. |
96032521 |
| ISBN |
0060183659 |
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