New Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman Writer, 1832-1860 by Easley, Alexis

New Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman Writer, 1832-1860 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781474475921)

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New Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman Writer, 1832-1860 by Easley, Alexis

New Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman Writer, 1832-1860

$120.00
New Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman Writer, 1832-1860 by Easley, Alexis

New Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman Writer, 1832-1860

$120.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book highlights the integral relationship between the rise of the popular woman writer and the expansion and diversification of newspaper, book and periodical print media during a period of unprecedented change, 1832-1860. It includes discussions of canonical women writers such as Felicia Hemans, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot, as well as lesser-known figures such as Eliza Cook and Frances Brown. It also examines the ways in which women readers actively responded to a robust popular print culture by creating scrapbooks and engaging in forms of celebrity worship. At the same time, it demonstrates how Victorian women's participation in popular print culture anticipates our own engagement with new media in the twenty-first century.

Author: Alexis Easley
ISBN-10: 1474475922
ISBN-13: 9781474475921
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/16/2021
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d
By Alexis Easley
By Alexis Easley
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Alexis Easley is Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of First-Person Anonymous: Women Writers and Victorian Print Media, 1830-70 (2004) and Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian Authorship, 1850-1914 (2011). She has also co-edited four books, most recently Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s, with Clare Gill and Beth Rodgers (2019). Her most recent book publication is New Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman Writer, 1832-60 (2021). This project was a 2019 recipient of the Linda H. Peterson Prize awarded by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. She is currently at work on a biography of Eliza Cook.

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