Format:
1 Online-Ressource (332 p)
ISBN:
9781501722790
,
1501722794
,
1501722794
,
9781501722790
Series Statement:
Reading Women Writing Ser
Content:
In this forceful and compelling book, Alison Booth traces through the novels, essays, and other writings of George Eliot and Virginia Woolf radically conflicting attitudes on the part of each toward the possibility of feminine greatness
Content:
Greatness Engendered; Contents; Preface; Frequently Cited Works; Introduction: The Great Woman Writer, the Canon, and Feminist Tradition; 1. Something to Do: The Ideology of Influence and the Context of Contemporary Feminism; 2. The Burden of Personality: Biographical Criticism and Narrative Strategy; 3. Eliot and Woolf as Historians of the Common Life; 4. Miracles in Fetters: Heroism and the Selfless Ideal; 5. Trespassing in Cultural History: The Heroines of Romola and Orlando; 6. ""God was cruel when he made women"": Felix Holt and The Years
Content:
Greatness Engendered; Contents; Preface; Frequently Cited Works; Introduction: The Great Woman Writer, the Canon, and Feminist Tradition; 1. Something to Do: The Ideology of Influence and the Context of Contemporary Feminism; 2. The Burden of Personality: Biographical Criticism and Narrative Strategy; 3. Eliot and Woolf as Historians of the Common Life; 4. Miracles in Fetters: Heroism and the Selfless Ideal; 5. Trespassing in Cultural History: The Heroines of Romola and Orlando; 6. ""God was cruel when he made women"": Felix Holt and The Years
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501727771
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501727771
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781501727771
Language:
English
URL:
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