1. Introduction: living authors 2. Thomas Carlyle and the luminous author 3. Thackeray and the novel of literary apprenticeship 4. Dickens and the profession of labour 5. Broken idols: the development of the working-class author 6. Moving statues: the iconography of the 'printing woman' 7. Conclusion: the disenchantment of the author.
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