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First-Person Anonymous - Women Writers and Victorian Print Media, 1830-1870 (Paperback)
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First-Person Anonymous - Women Writers and Victorian Print Media, 1830-1870 (Paperback)
Series: The Nineteenth Century Series
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First-Person Anonymous revises previous histories of Victorian
women's writing by examining the importance of both anonymous
periodical journalism and signed book authorship in women's
literary careers. Alexis Easley demonstrates how women writers
capitalized on the publishing conventions associated with signed
and unsigned print media in order to create their own spaces of
agency and meaning within a male-dominated publishing industry. She
highlights the importance of journalism in the fashioning of
women's complex identities, thus providing a counterpoint to
conventional critical accounts of the period that reduce periodical
journalism to a monolithically oppressive domain of power
relations. Instead, she demonstrates how anonymous publication
enabled women to participate in important social and political
debates without compromising their middle-class respectability.A
Through extensive analysis of literary and journalistic texts,
Easley demonstrates how the narrative strategies and political
concerns associated with women's journalism carried over into their
signed books of poetry and prose. Women faced a variety of
obstacles and opportunities as they negotiated the demands of
signed and unsigned print media.A In investigating women's
engagement with these media, Easley focuses specifically on the
work of Christian Johnstone (1781-1857), Harriet Martineau
(1802-76), Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65), George Eliot (1819-80) ,
and Christina Rossetti (1830-94).A She provides new insight into
the careers of these authors and recovers a large, anonymous body
of periodical writing through which their better known careers
emerged into public visibility. Since her work touches on two
issues central to the study of literary history - the construction
of the author and changes in media technology - it will appeal to
an audience of scholars and general readers in the fields of
Victorian literature, media studies, periodicals research, gender
studies, and nineteenth-century
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