Title Edging women out : Victorian novelists, publishers and social change / Gaye Tuchman with Nina E. Fortin

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2012

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature ; v. 13 Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature ; v. 13. Contents 1. Gender segregation and the politics of culture -- 2. Writers and the Victorian publishing system -- 3. Novel writing as an empty field -- 4. Edging women out : the high-culture novel -- 5. Who gained from industrialization? -- 6. The invasion, or, How women wrote more for less -- 7. Macmillan's contracts with novelists -- 8. The critical double standard -- 9. The case of the disappearing lady novelists Summary Before about 1840, there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were women. By the turn of the twentieth century, ""men of letters"" acclaimed novels as a form of great literature, and most critically successful novelists were men. In the book, sociologist Gaye Tuchman examines how men succeeded in redefining a form of culture and in invading a white-collar occupation previously practiced mostly by women.Tuchman documents how men gradually supplanted women as novelists once novel-writing was perceived as potentially profitable, in part becau Notes Originally published in 1989 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL Title page of online resource (Ebsco; viewed on Sept. 18, 2012) Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Authorship -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Authorship -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Literature publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Women -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Social change -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Sex role -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General. Authorship -- Economic aspects Authorship -- Social aspects English fiction Literature and society Literature publishing Sex role Social change Social conditions Women and literature Women -- Employment Romancier Soziologie Romanschriftstellerin Buchmarkt Prestige SUBJECT Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056943 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Fortin, Nina E. ISBN 9781136290794 1136290796 9781136290787 1136290788 9780203114353 0203114353

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