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This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural
criticism over the long nineteenth century. The final volume 4 of 4
explores the subject of drama criticism written by women. This
volume will be of great interest to students of literary history.
Focusing particularly on the critical reception of Jane Austen,
Charlotte BrontA" and George Eliot, Joanne Wilkes offers in-depth
examinations of reviews by eight female critics: Maria Jane
Jewsbury, Sara Coleridge, Hannah Lawrance, Jane Williams, Julia
Kavanagh, Anne Mozley, Margaret Oliphant and Mary Augusta Ward.
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,
Kavanagh 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 nineteenth-century Britain.
This four volume collection of primary sources examines literary
and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century. The
volumes explore the subjects of life-writing, including biography,
autobiography, diaries, and letters, drama criticism, the
periodical and newspaper press, and criticism written by women.
This collection will be of great interest to students of literary
history.
Published in 1999. Lord Byron and Madam de Stael made a great
impression on Europe in the throes of the Napoleonic Wars, through
their personalities, the versions of themselves which they
projected through their works, and their literary engagement with
contemporary life. However, the strong links between them have
never before been explored in detail. This pioneering study looks
at their personal relations, from their verbal sparring in Regency
society, through the friendship which developed in Switzerland
after Byron left England in 1816, to Byron's tributes to Mme de
Stael after her death. It concentrates on their literary links,
both direct responses to each other's works, and the copious
evidence of shared concerns. The study deals with their treatment
of gender, their grappling with the possibilities for heroic
endeavour, their engagement with the social and political
situations of Britain, France and Italy, and their conceptions of
the role of the writer. Although Byron will need no introduction,
Mme de Stael's standing as a French romantic writer of the first
rank is made plain by the strong impact of her writings on the
English Poet.
Focusing particularly on the critical reception of Jane Austen,
Charlotte BrontA" and George Eliot, Joanne Wilkes offers in-depth
examinations of reviews by eight female critics: Maria Jane
Jewsbury, Sara Coleridge, Hannah Lawrance, Jane Williams, Julia
Kavanagh, Anne Mozley, Margaret Oliphant and Mary Augusta Ward.
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,
Kavanagh 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 nineteenth-century Britain.
Published in 1999. Lord Byron and Madam de Stael made a great
impression on Europe in the throes of the Napoleonic Wars, through
their personalities, the versions of themselves which they
projected through their works, and their literary engagement with
contemporary life. However, the strong links between them have
never before been explored in detail. This pioneering study looks
at their personal relations, from their verbal sparring in Regency
society, through the friendship which developed in Switzerland
after Byron left England in 1816, to Byron's tributes to Mme de
Stael after her death. It concentrates on their literary links,
both direct responses to each other's works, and the copious
evidence of shared concerns. The study deals with their treatment
of gender, their grappling with the possibilities for heroic
endeavour, their engagement with the social and political
situations of Britain, France and Italy, and their conceptions of
the role of the writer. Although Byron will need no introduction,
Mme de Stael's standing as a French romantic writer of the first
rank is made plain by the strong impact of her writings on the
English Poet.
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that
spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more
short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including
biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than
three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious
critical edition of her work. This volume includes her 1872 novel
At his Gates with editorial notes by Joanne Wilkes, including a new
introduction, headnote and explanatory notes which provide key
information about the book and its publication history.
This is the most ambitious scholarly critical edition of Oliphant's
work ever undertaken. The sheer scale of her output has meant that
selection is essential, but the edition aims to convey the range
and variety of her work in both fiction and non-fictional genres.
It will bring together for the first time her critical writing and
other journalism for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, the Spectator,
the St James's Gazette, as well as her articles in the Contemporary
Review, the Edinburgh, and Macmillan's Magazine. Much of her
fiction, including full length novels, short stories and novellas,
was first published in periodicals: in Blackwood's, the Cornhill,
Longman's Magazine, Macmillan's, and Good Words. Few of her
manuscripts survive, but substantive textual work remains to be
done on the editorial changes made between periodical serialization
and first appearance in volume form. The edition will place
particular emphasis on her shorter fiction, much of which will be
reprinted for the first time, and on her work as a biographer,
historian, and literary historian.
Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that
spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more
short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including
biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than
three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious
critical edition of her work.
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (1828-97) had a wide-ranging and
prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote
some 98 novels, over fifty short stories, twenty-five works of
non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European
cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. As the
self-styled 'general utility woman' for Blackwood's Edinburgh
Magazine, often contributing both fiction and literary reviews to
the same issue, she became a major critical voice for her
generation. Her influence, usually cast on the side of 'the common
reader', was such that it provoked fellow novelists such as Anthony
Trollope, Henry James and Thomas Hardy to savage fictional
portraits by way of retaliation. The scholarly interest that her
work now receives is hampered by difficulty in accessing the full
range of her oeuvre: whilst her most famous fictional series, 'The
Chronicles of Carlingford', together with a handful of her tales of
the supernatural, have gone in and out of print in recent years,
the bulk of her fiction and critical writing remains uncollected.
This is the most ambitious scholarly critical edition of Oliphant's
work ever undertaken.
Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that
spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more
short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including
biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than
three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious
critical edition of her work.
This is the most ambitious scholarly critical edition of Oliphant's
work ever undertaken. The sheer scale of her output has meant that
selection is essential, but the edition aims to convey the range
and variety of her work in both fiction and non-fictional genres.
It will bring together for the first time her critical writing and
other journalism for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, the Spectator,
the St James's Gazette, as well as her articles in the Contemporary
Review, the Edinburgh, and Macmillan's Magazine. Much of her
fiction, including full length novels, short stories and novellas,
was first published in periodicals: in Blackwood's, the Cornhill,
Longman's Magazine, Macmillan's, and Good Words. Few of her
manuscripts survive, but substantive textual work remains to be
done on the editorial changes made between periodical serialization
and first appearance in volume form
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
In 1924 eight young women drove across the American West in two
Model T Fords. In nine weeks they traveled more than nine thousand
unpaved miles on an extended car-camping trip through six national
parks, "without a man or a gun along." It was the era of the
flapper, but this book tells the story of a group of farm girls who
met while attending Iowa's Teacher's College and who shared a "yen
to see some things." A blend of oral and written history,
adventure, memoir, and just plain heartfelt living, "Eight Women"
is a story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Weaving
together a granddaughter's essays with family stories and anecdotes
from the 1924 trip, the book portrays four generations of women
extending from nineteenth-century Norway to present-day Iowa--and
sets them loose across the western United States where the perils
and practicalities of automotive travel reaffirm family connections
while also celebrating individual freedom.
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