Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-26057-3 (ISBN)
Brenda R. Weber is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor of English, Cultural Studies, Communication and Culture, and American Studies at Indiana University, USA.
Contents: Introduction: a right to call herself famous; Reconstructing Charlotte: the making of a celebrated 'female genius'; 'A sort of monster': Fanny Fern, fame's appetite and the construction of the multivalent famous female author; 'Great genius breaks all bonds': Margaret Oliphant and the female literary greats; Correcting the record, creating a new one: Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes and Eliza Potter's A Hair-dresser's Experience in High Life; The text as child: gender/sex and metaphors of maternity at the fin de siècle; Conclusion: doing her level best to play the man's game: literary hermaphrodites and the exceptional woman; Afterword: in search of the cult of Charlotte; Works cited; Index.
Erscheinungsdatum | 14.05.2017 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 453 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-26057-6 / 1138260576 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-26057-3 / 9781138260573 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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