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almafu_9958352444402883
Format:
1 online resource (304 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9780812204971
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction: The Work of Genius --
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Chapter 1. "It Spoke Itself ": Genius, Political Speech, and Louisa May Alcott’s Work --
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Chapter 2. Genius and the Demise of Radical Publics in Henry James’s The Bostonians --
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Chapter 3. Trilby: Double Personality, Intellectual Property, and Mass Genius --
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Chapter 4. Mary Hunter Austin: Genius, Variation, and the Identity Politics of Innovation --
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Chapter 5. Imitation as Circulation: Racial Genius and the Problem of National Culture in Jessie Redmon Fauset’s There Is Confusion --
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Coda: Gertrude Stein in Occupied France --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index --
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Acknowledgments.
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9780812204971
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204971
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204971
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