The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing
$218.71
- Hardcover
298 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2015
Summary
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women’s Writing brings together chapters by leading scholars to provide innovative and comprehensive coverage of Victorian women writers’ careers and literary achievements. While incorporating the scholarly insights of modern feminist criticism, it also reflects new approaches to women authors that have emerged with the rise of book history; periodical studies; performance studies; postcolonial studies; and scholarship on authorship, readership, and publis…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781107064843 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1107064848 |
| Author: | Linda H. Peterson |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 298 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2015 |
| Weight: | 600g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 157mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Cambridge Companions to Literature |
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Critics Review
‘Harmonizing, conflicting, and overlapping in compelling ways, [these scholars’] essays mirror precisely what their work seeks to document - the variegated and sometimes contradictory discourses about Victorian women writers, both in the nineteenth century and today.’ Kimberly J. Stern, Review 19 (nbol-19.org)‘A valuable teaching tool and a relevant contribution to the study of gender and literary history. With its impressively wide range of examples of Victorian women writers and their works it reminds us of the immense work still to be done in order to gain a more complex understanding of nineteenth century literature and its institutions.’ Nineteenth Century Gender Studies
About The Author
Linda H. Peterson
Linda H. Peterson (1948-2015) was Niel Gray, Jr Professor of English at Yale University. She was the author of Traditions of Victorian Women’s Autobiography: The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing (1999) and Becoming a Woman of Letters: Myths of Authorship, Facts of the Victorian Market (2009).
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