T. Hoagwood, K. Ledbetter

Colour'd Shadows

Contexts in Publishing, Printing, and Reading Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers

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Produktbeschreibung

This book studies the print culture of the nineteenth century as it shaped the meanings and the cultural significance of literary works by women writers - Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lady Blessington, Lady Morgan, Caroline Norton, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and others. Colour'd Shadows explains and interprets the physical forms of their books, the economics and politics of production and reception, and the cultural meanings of their literary work, showing how poems, literary annuals, engravings, commercial arrangements, the practices of women editors as well as writers, the politics of gender, the changing means of production, and women's literary relationships unfold in the medium of print and, more largely, the rapidly changing culture of the century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-52948-3
• 1st ed. 2005
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781349529483
• ISBN-10: 1349529486
• Artikelnr.: 45082961

Autorenporträt

TERENCE ALLAN HOAGWOOD is Professor of English at Texas A & M University, USA. KATHRYN LEDBETTER is Assistant Professor of English at Texas State University, San Marcos, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Introduction Scholarly Fantasy and Material Reality in Mary Robinson's Sappho and Phaon Ideology and Textuality in Herman's Records of Woman Commodifying the 'Calumniated Woman' in Fraser's 'The Very Roads of Literature': Women Editors of Nineteenth-Century British Literary Annuals Volumptuous Opportunities: Visual Images in the Keepsake 'The Fate of Woman at its Root': Elizabeth Barrett's A Drama of Exile and Jean Ingelow's A Story of Doom 'Varied Forms Pass Glitt'ring': Violet Fane's Denzil Place: A Story in Verse Notes Bibliography

Rezensionen

"By examining a wide range of literary works and literary-related activities by women in nineteenth-century Britain, "Colour'd Shadows" shifts the focus of scholarship away from the authority of self representation in determining meaning and onto the site, the method, and the time of manufacture of literary works; in this way, Hoagwood and Ledbetter are able to show that what appears to be transparent in literature (i.e., meaning and content) is in fact part of an illusion created by the processes of commodity production. This study is sure to trouble and enliven literary criticism and open a path to new sorts of materialist literary inquiry." - Daniel P. Watkins, Duquesne University