Private sphere to world stage from Austen to Eliot /

Elizabeth Sabiston examines works by Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot, offering a fresh perspective on the transition of women writers from the private to the public sphere. What emerges, particularly in comparisons of the factory novels of Gaskell with th...

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מחבר ראשי: Sabiston, Elizabeth Jean, 1937-
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., ©2008.
גישה מקוונת:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=269366
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  • Cover; Contents; Figure; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction-"Letters to the World": From Private Sphere to World Stage; 2 Jane Austen's Art of Fiction: The Hidden Manifesto in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; 3 Not Carved in Stone: Women's Hearts and Women's Texts in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre; 4 Cathy's Book: The Ghost-text in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights; 5 "The Iron of Slavery in Her Heart": The Literary Relationship of Elizabeth Gaskell and Harriet Beecher Stowe; 6 George Eliot's Daniel Deronda: "A Daniel Come to Judgment"; 7 Conclusion-and a New Beginning; Bibliography; Index