Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Literary Criticism andCultural Theory; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One Dueling Authorships in the Romantic Period: The Author of Waverley and the Great Unknown; The Prophet Margin; "The Ordinary Business of the World"; The Uses of Waverley; Two Making Friends: Dickens, Pickwick, and Industrial Romanticism; Editing Authorship; The Messenger Is the Message; Serialization and the Code of Production; Three Sympathy's Last Gasp: The Professional Body and the Disease of Sensationalism; Romancing King Public; The Making of an Outcast Genre.
  • Rereading the Sympathetic BodyFour The Death of the Victorian Author: Mastery and Mystery in James's The Princess Casamassima; Anarchy and Artisans; Sympathy and Appreciation; The Suicide of the Author; Five Veiled Women in the Marketplace of Culture: Authorships and Domesticities in Gaskell and Eliot; Domesticity and Demagoguery; Authorship in the Parrot-House; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.