Gatekeeping: Publishers' Readers, Gender, and the Literature of the 1890s.
Victorian publishers widely relied on readers to evaluate manuscripts. These gatekeepers played a central role in circumscribing the literary field and in shaping literary history. Drawing on extensive archival work, this essay examines the ways in which the readers for the publisher John Lane respo...
| Publicado en: | Victorian Studies Vol. 67; no. 4; pp. 537 - 559 |
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Summer2025
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