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Author:

Weber, Brenda R., 1964-

Title:

Women and literary celebrity in the nineteenth century : the transatlantic production of fame and gender / Brenda R. Weber.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xiv, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Fame--History--19th century.
Sex role--History--19th century.
Women authors--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women authors in literature.
Authorship--History--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Authorship--History--United States--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 si©·cle -- 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.

Series:

Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies

ISBN:

1409400743 (ebook)
9781409400745 (ebook)
1409400735 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781409400738 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)768072420

LCCN:

2011046387

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)