Women's Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture: Sensational Strategies

by Beth Palmer

This book considers the ways in which women writers used the powerful positions of author and editor to perform conventions of gender and genre in the Victorian period. It examines Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Ellen Wood, and Florence Marryat's magazines (Belgravia, Argosy, and London Society respectively) alongside their sensation fiction to explore the mutually influential strategies of authorship and editorship.

The relationship between sensation's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199599114
• ISBN13: 9780199599110
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"