Lost Saints: Silence, Gender, and Victorian Literary Canonization

by Tricia Lootens

In Lost Saints Tricia Lootens argues that parallels betwee literary and religious canons are far deeper than has yet been realized. She presents the ideological underpinnings of Victorian literary canonization and the general processes by which it occurred and discloses the unacknowledged traces of canonization at work today. Literary legends have accorded canonicity to women writers such as Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Christina...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813916526
• ISBN13: 9780813916521
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A must read

Anyone interested in Victorian literature or interpretations of writings during the Victorian era should read this excellent commentary. Also an example of feminist criticism at its best.