Dickens' fur coat and Charlotte's unanswered letters : the rows and romances of England's great Victorian novelists / Daniel Pool.
1997
PR878.P78 P66 1997 (Mapit)
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Dickens' fur coat and Charlotte's unanswered letters : the rows and romances of England's great Victorian novelists / Daniel Pool.
Author
Pool, Daniel.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0060183659 (pbk.)
9780060183653 (pbk.)
006098435X (pbk.)
9780060984359 (pbk.)
9780060183653 (pbk.)
006098435X (pbk.)
9780060984359 (pbk.)
Imprint
New York : HarperCollins, 1997.
Language
English
Description
xvi, 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PR878.P78 P66 1997
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.809
Summary
In his bestselling What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, Daniel Pool brilliantly unlocked the mysteries of the English novel. Now, in his long-awaited Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters, Pool turns his keen eye to England's great Victorian novelists themselves, to reveal the surprisingly human private side of their public genius. Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters explores the outrageous publicity stunts, bitter rivalries, rows, and general mayhem perpetrated by this group of supposedly prudish - yet remarkably passionate and eccentric - authors and publishers. Against a vividly painted backdrop of London as the small world it once was, the book brings on the players in the ever-changing, brave new world of big publishing - a world that gave birth to author tours, big advances, "trashy" fiction, flashy bookstalls in train stations (for Victorian "airport fiction"), celebrity libel suits, bogus blurbs, even paper recycling (as unsold volumes reappeared as trunk linings, fish wrappings, and fertilizer).
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Pt. 1. "A Low, Cheap Form of Publication": Charles Dickens, the Coming of Pickwick, and Murder by the Book
Pt. 2. "It Would Never Suit the Circulating Libraries": Jane Eyre, Vanity Fair, and the Three-Volume Straitjacket
Pt. 3. "What Shall I Be Without My Father?": Women Novelists in the London of Dickens and Thackeray, the Coming of Real Money, and the Novel Becomes Respectable
Pt. 4. "Do Let Me Abuse Mr Newby": Literary Executors, Gossip Columnists, and the Emergence of the Novelist as Celebrity
Pt. 5. "Terror to the End": The Sensation Novel, Dickens "Dreadfully Shattered," and Anthony Trollope Gets a Traveling Bag and an Audience
Pt. 6. "We Are a Novel-Reading Country": Middlemarch and Mr. Mudie's Library, the Novel Apparently Triumphant, but Henry James Fails, Ominously, to Write a Happy Ending.
Pt. 2. "It Would Never Suit the Circulating Libraries": Jane Eyre, Vanity Fair, and the Three-Volume Straitjacket
Pt. 3. "What Shall I Be Without My Father?": Women Novelists in the London of Dickens and Thackeray, the Coming of Real Money, and the Novel Becomes Respectable
Pt. 4. "Do Let Me Abuse Mr Newby": Literary Executors, Gossip Columnists, and the Emergence of the Novelist as Celebrity
Pt. 5. "Terror to the End": The Sensation Novel, Dickens "Dreadfully Shattered," and Anthony Trollope Gets a Traveling Bag and an Audience
Pt. 6. "We Are a Novel-Reading Country": Middlemarch and Mr. Mudie's Library, the Novel Apparently Triumphant, but Henry James Fails, Ominously, to Write a Happy Ending.