Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century: The Transatlantic Production of Fame and Gender

by Brenda R. Weber

Book Overview

Focusing on representations of women's literary celebrity in nineteenth-century biographies, autobiographical accounts, periodicals, and fiction, Brenda R. Weber examines the transatlantic cultural politics of visibility in relation to gender, sex, and the body. Looking both at discursive patterns and specific Anglo-American texts that foreground the figure of the successful woman writer, Weber argues that authors such as Elizabeth Gaskell, Fanny...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138260576
• ISBN13: 9781138260573
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"