Marketing "Proper" Names: Female Authors, Sensation Discourse, and the Mid-Victorian Literary Profession

This dissertation explores the unstable concept of the proper name and how mid-Victorian female authors strategically used their legal names to market themselves as professional writers in order to gain and maintain economic security. The names of women authors carry multiple meanings, including leg...

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Main Author: Freeman, Heather Elizabeth
Other Authors: Jim Epstein
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: VANDERBILT 2013
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Online Access:http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-07182013-134432/