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Book 1996study investigates four canonical and popular novelists (Emily Bronte, Anthony Trollope, Charles Reade, Charlotte Yonge), all of whom caused high cultural commotions by epitomizing or subverting contemporary definitions of ‘masculine‘ or ‘feminine‘ writing.

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Conclusion,cal life” (1985, p. 192). As Jauss puts it, “A literary work is not an object that stands by itself and that offers the same view to each reader in each period” (., 1982, p. 21). Canons, Paul Lauter reminds us, are “the products of historically specific conflicts over culture and values” (168).

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Book 1996ding and canon formation in nineteenth-century England, examining the reception of several mid-century works in over 100 Victorian book reviews. This study investigates four canonical and popular novelists (Emily Bronte, Anthony Trollope, Charles Reade, Charlotte Yonge), all of whom caused high cult

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Reviewing and Writing: Sex and Gender,three periodicals stocked by Mudie’s Circulating Library. The seriousness with which these quarterlies assumed their responsibility as shapers of public opinion can be seen in Walter Bagehot’s remark about the .: “The modern man must be told what to think — shortly no doubt, but he . be told” (quoted in Houghton, “Periodical literature”, p. 7).

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,The Unveiling of Ellis Bell: Emily Bront?’s ,sexual double standard in the reception of .: “The sex of both Ellis and Currer Bell was almost as important to their early reviewers as the power of their stories. Indeed, a double standard clearly operated in the reactions to the novels” (1990, p. 237).

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,“Something both More and Less than Manliness”: Anthony Trollope’s Reception,through which critics can begin to formulate responses to the works. Unlike literary responses to Reade or Bront?, critical reaction to Trollope does not at first glance seem structured around preoccupations with gender.

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