Examining the ways in which women writers used the powerful positions of author and editor to perform conventions of gender and genre in the Victorian period, this book considers the work of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Ellen Wood and Florence Marryat to explore their mutually-influe…
Examining the ways in which women writers used the powerful positions of author and editor to perform conventions of gender and genre in the Victorian period, this book considers the work of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Ellen Wood and Florence Marryat to explore their mutually-influe…
"This book brings new perspectives to the study of sensation fiction in the Victorian period. It examines Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Ellen Wood, and Florence Marryat's magazines alongside their fiction to explore the self-conscious and complex ways they used sensation to re-work co…
In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work The English Common Reader transformed the study of book history. Inspired by Altick's research, but digging deep into the neglected records of prison libraries, army barracks or convict ships the authors of A Return to the Common Rea…