Dickens' fur coat and Charlotte's unanswered letters : the rows and romances of England's great Victorian novelists
Item details
- ISBN: 0060183659
- ISBN: 9780060183653
- ISBN: 006098435X (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780060984359 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
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xvi, 282 p. : ill ; 24 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, 1997.
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-265) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Additional Physical Form available Note: | Also issued online. |
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