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Women reviewing women in nineteenth-century Britain : the critical reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot

Title: Women reviewing women in nineteenth-century Britain : the critical reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot / Joanne Wilkes.
Author: Wilkes, Joanne.
Publication: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010.

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Description

x, 183 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"Focusing particularly on the critical reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot, Joanne Wilkes offers in-depth examinations of reviews by eight female critics. What they wrote about women writers, and what their writings tell us about the critics' own sense of themselves as women writers, reveal the distinctive character of nineteenth-century women's contributions to literary history." "Wilkes explores the different choices these critics, writing when women had to grapple with limiting assumptions about female intellectual capacities, made about how to disseminate their own writing. While several publishing in periodicals wrote anonymously, others published books, articles and reviews under their own names. Wilkes teases out the distinctiveness of nineteenth-century women's often ignored contributions to the critical reception of canonical women authors, and also devotes space to the pioneering efforts of Lawrance, Kavangh and Williams to draw attention to the long tradition of female literary activity up to the nineteenth century. She draws on commentary by male critics of the period as well, to provide context for this important contribution to the recuperation of women's critical discourse in ninteenth-century Britain."--Jacket.

Series Statement

The nineteenth century series

Uniform Title

Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)

Subject

Genre/Form

Book reviews.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Comptes rendus de livres.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Maria Jane Jewsbury and Sara Coleridge -- Writing women's literary history : Hannah Lawrance, Jane Williams and Julia Kavanagh -- Anne Mozley -- Margaret Oliphant and Mary Augusta Ward -- Conclusion.

ISBN

9780754663362
0754663361
9780754698579
0754698572

LCCN

2009023952

OCLC

ocn396203405
396203405
SCSB-14510328

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library