An edition of Women and literary celebrity in the nineteenth century (2012)

Women and literary celebrity in the nineteenth century

the transatlantic production of fame and gender

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Women and literary celebrity in the nineteent ...
Brenda R. Weber, Brenda R. Web ...
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Ashgate
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Subjects

English literature, History and criticism, American literature, Women authors, Sex role, Authorship, Women authors in literature, Fame, Biography, History

Places

United States, Great Britain

Times

19th century

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Women and literary celebrity in the nineteenth century: the transatlantic production of fame and gender
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Table of Contents

Introduction : a right to call herself famous
Reconstructing Charlotte : the making of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Aldershot, Hants, England, Burlington, VT
Series
Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
820.9/928709034
Library of Congress
PR115 .W43 2012

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25139094M
ISBN 13
9781409400738, 9781409400745
LCCN
2011046387

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