Victoria Olwell

The Genius of Democracy

Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States, 186-1945

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Victoria Olwell shows how American fiction helped to catalyze democratic models of female genius, especially in the work of such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Mary Hunter Austin, Jessie Fauset, and Gertrude Stein.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 161mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780812243246
• ISBN-10: 0812243242
• Artikelnr.: 33075951

Autorenporträt

Victoria Olwell teaches English at the University of Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Work of Genius
Chapter 1. "It Spoke Itself": Genius, Political Speech, and Louisa May
Alcott's Work
Chapter 2. Genius and the Demise of Radical Publics in Henry James's The
Bostonians
Chapter 3. Trilby: Double Personality, Intellectual Property, and Mass
Genius
Chapter 4. Mary Hunter Austin: Genius, Variation, and the Identity Politics
of Innovation
Chapter 5. Imitation as Circulation: Racial Genius and the Problem of
National Culture in Jessie Redmon Fauset's There Is Confusion
Coda: Gertrude Stein in Occupied France
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments