UID:
almahu_9948236334602882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 291 pages) :
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illustrations; digital file(s).
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2013. Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
ISBN:
9781847792952
Content:
Julia Kavanagh was a popular and internationally published writer of the mid-nineteenth century whose collective body of work included fiction, biography, critical studies of French and English women writers, and travel writing. In this critically engaged study Eileen Fauset sees Kavanagh as a significant but neglected writer and returns her to her proper place in the history of women's writing.With few known primary sources to go on, the author manages, through her skilful selection of letters, official documents and historical commentary, to piece together some of the jigsaw of Kavanagh's life. Throughout this study, the biographical element informs and directs discussion of Kavanagh's writing itself. What emerges is a succinct and telling portrait of a woman who, through a desire to write, acquired both economic independence and a means through which she could voice her sexual politics. Eileen Fauset challenges the historical attitudes to 'popular romance', a genre read mainly by women and generally discounted as simple entertainment. She argues that in Kavanagh's novels romance is often the pivot around which issues of cultural and sexual difference are examined, a perspective that, invariably, also informed Kavanagh's non-fiction.It will appeal to academics, students and enthusiasts of Victorian literature and women's writing.
Note:
Made available via: manchesterhive.
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MUP 2020 titles.
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Introduction -- 1. Julia Kavanagh -- 2. The Novel -- 3. Woman in France during the Eighteenth Century -- 4. French Women of Letters and English Women of Letters -- 5. A Summer and Winter in the Two Sicilies -- Postscript -- Notes -- Julia Kavanagh: Publications -- Bibliography -- Index
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Also available in print form.
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Mode of access: internet via World Wide Web.
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System requirements: Adobe Acrobat or other PDF reader (latest version recommended), Internet Explorer or other browser (latest version recommended).
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In English.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Fauset, Eileen. The politics of writing : Julia Kavanagh, 1824–77, Manchester, UK. : Manchester University Press, 2009, ISBN 9780719055577
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7765/9781847792952
URL:
https://www.manchesterhive.com/view/9781847792952/9781847792952.xml
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781847792952
