Richard Salmon is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Leeds, where he has taught Victorian and Romantic literature since 1996.

'A thorough and thought-provoking analysis.' The Times Literary Supplement

• 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.

Richard Salmon is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Leeds, where he has taught Victorian and Romantic literature since 1996.

'A thorough and thought-provoking analysis.' The Times Literary Supplement

• 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.

Richard Salmon is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Leeds, where he has taught Victorian and Romantic literature since 1996.

'A thorough and thought-provoking analysis.' The Times Literary Supplement

• 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.