Life Writing and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Market by Grass, Sean;

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Articulates life writing’s complex engagement with the nineteenth-century literary market

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Life Writing and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Market begins from the premise that nineteenth-century life writing circulated in a market, in material and discursive forms determined substantially by the desires of publishers, readers, editors, printers, booksellers and the many other craftsmen and tradesmen who collaborated in transforming first-person narrative into a commodified thing. Studies of nineteenth-century life writing have typically focused on the major autobiographers, or on the formation of ‘genre’, or on the ways in which different class, gender, race and other affiliations shaped particular kinds of exemplary subjectivities. The aim of this collection, on the other hand, is to focus on life writing in terms to of profits and sales, contracts and copyright, printing and illustration—to treat life writing, through particular case studies and through attentive analysis of print and material cultures, as one commodity among many in the vast, complicated literary market of nineteenth-century England.

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Series Editors' Preface
Notes on Contributors

Introduction. Life Writing and the Literary Market
Sean Grass
1. ‘Paying the double debt’: Journalism, Autobiography and the Nineteenth-Century Marketplace
Trev Lynn Broughton

2. Auto/biography, Fiction and the ‘Struggling’ Woman Author, 1832–55
Alexis Easley
3. The Way We Trade in Women’s Roles, Then and Now: The Trollope Brothers, Queens, Race and International Biographical Histories
Alison Booth
4. ‘Turn[ing] a penny’, Turning the Page: Autobiography and Midcentury Reviewing
Sean Grass
5. Paper Tiger: The Ghost of Nana Sahib in British Newspapers
Priti Joshi
6. Biography in Bits and Pieces: Selling Ethel Dickens in the Periodical Press
Heidi L. Pennington
7. Marketing the Black Experience: Diasporic Victorian Blackness in Three Acts
Jesse Erickson
8. ‘Good workmanship and convenient arrangement’: Marketing Commercial Diaries in Victorian Periodicals
Anne-Marie Millim
Works Cited
Index