The Making of the Victorian Novelist: Anxieties of Authorship in the Mass Market

aesthetic anonymity anxiety argued artistic audience Author of Waverley become Chapman and Hall chapter characters Charles Dickens Charlotte Brontë cheap circulation claims Collins Collins's construction of authorship contemporary critics Dickens Dickens's discourse domestic Eliot's fact feeling Fosco friends friendship Gaskell Gaskell's genius genre Hyacinth ideal ideologies of authorship imaginative implies individual industry James James's Laura literary production literary value literature Mary Barton mass market ment metaphor Middlemarch mode of production narrative narrator narrator's newspaper novelists Penny Penny Magazine periodical Pickwick Papers poet political popular preface Princess Casamassima print culture professional publishing readers readership relations relations of production relationship represents reviewers rhetoric Romantic Romanticism Scott sensation fiction sensation novels sensationalism sense serial social society story suggests sympathetic sympathy Talfourd taste textual tion trope ultimately understanding Victorian novelists Walter Waverley novels Waverley's Wilkie Collins Woman in White Wordsworth