Jennifer Cognard-Black

Narrative in the Professional Age

Transatlantic Readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and George Eliot

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Produktbeschreibung

Challenging previous studies that claim anxiety and antagonism between transatlantic Victorian authors, Jennifer Cognard-Black uncovers a model of reciprocal influence among three of the most popular women writers of the era. Combining analyses of personal correspondence and print culture with close readings of key narratives, this study presents an original history of transatlantic authorship that examines how these writers invented a collaborative aesthetics both within and against the dominant discourse of professionalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780415969949
• ISBN-10: 0415969948
• Artikelnr.: 22124896

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Cognard-Black teaches in the Department of English Language and Literature at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. 'You are as Thoroughly Woman as you are English': Strong
Femininity and the Making of George Eliot 3. 'The Wild and Distracted Call
for Proof': Harriet Beecher Stowe's Lady Byron Vindicated and the New
Professionalism 4. 'A More Living Interest': George Eliot's Daniel Deronda
and the Politics of American Reception 5. 'Proclaiming the Royal Lineage to
the Average Mind': high-Art Aesthetics, the Novel, and Competing
Femininities in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' The Story of AvisAfterward