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Author:

Cordell, Sigrid Anderson.

Title:

Fictions of dissent : reclaiming authority in transatlantic women's writing of the late nineteenth century / by Sigrid Anderson Cordell.

Publisher:

Pickering & Chatto,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

viii, 139 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Wotton, Mabel E.--Criticism and interpretation.
Lee, Vernon,--1856-1935--Criticism and interpretation.
Wharton, Edith,--1862-1937--Criticism and interpretation.
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.
Women in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-135) and index.

Contents:

'A beautiful translation from a very imperfect original': Mabel Wotton, aestheticism and the dilemma of literary borrowing -- Vernon Lee and the aesthetic subject -- Edith Wharton and the artist as connoisseur -- The aesthetics of ownership in women's stories.

Summary:

Fin de siecle fiction by British female aesthetes and American women regionalists stages moments of rebellion when female characters rise up and insist on the right to maintain control of their creations. Cordell asserts that these revolutionary acts constitute a transatlantic conversation about aesthetic practice and creative ownership.

Series:

Gender and Genre

ISBN:

1848930232 (hc.)
9781848930230 (hc.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)456907194

Locations:

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