Before George Eliot: Marian Evans and the Periodical Press (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 88) - Softcover

Dillane, Fionnuala

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1316600971 ISBN 13: 9781316600979

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Fionnuala Dillane revisits the first decade of Marian Evans's working life to explore the influence of the periodical press on her emergence as George Eliot and on her subsequent responses to fame. This interdisciplinary study discusses the significance of Evans's work as a journalist, editor and serial-fiction writer in the periodical press from the late 1840s to the late 1850s and positions this early career against critical responses to Evans's later literary persona, George Eliot. Dillane argues that Evans's association with the nineteenth-century periodical industry, that dominant cultural force of the age, is important for its illumination of Evans's understanding of the formation of reading audiences, the development of literary genres and the cultivation of literary celebrity.

About this title

Book Description:

The first study of Marian Evans's career as a journalist, editor and serial-fiction writer arguing the importance of periodical culture in the making of 'George Eliot'. It considers the limits of her pseudonymous identity and charts her move to vocal criticism of celebrity culture and the power of the press.

About the Author:

Fionnuala Dillane researches and teaches at the School of English, Drama and Film Studies, University College Dublin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1316600971
• ISBN 13: 9781316600979
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290