Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century: The Transatlantic Production of Fame and Gender

by Brenda R. Weber

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Focusing on representations of women's literary celebrity in nineteenth-century biographies, autobiographical accounts, periodicals, and fiction, Brenda R. Weber examines the transatlantic cultural politics of visibility in relation to gender, sex, and the body. Looking both at discursive patterns and specific Anglo-American texts that foreground the figure of the successful woman writer, Weber argues that authors such as Elizabeth Gaskell, Fanny...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1138260576

ISBN13:9781138260573

Release Date:November 2016

Publisher:Routledge

Length:274 Pages

Weight:0.87 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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