| Description |
1 online resource (214 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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 the slavery writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, is a portrait of the subversive and influential strategies these writers used to transcend national and gender boundaries. |
| Contents |
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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Women -- Books and reading -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Sex role in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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English literature -- Women authors |
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Sex role in literature |
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Women and literature |
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Women -- Books and reading |
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England https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpYDdYvBpjXV6WpybK68C |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sabiston, Elizabeth Jean, 1937- Private sphere to world stage from Austen to Eliot. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., ©2008 (DLC) 2007025305 |
| ISBN |
0754690040 (electronic bk.) |
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9780754690047 (electronic bk.) |
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1281332550 |
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9781281332554 |
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1351151398 |
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9781351151399 |
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9780754661740 (alk. paper) |
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9780754690047 |
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0754661741 (alk. paper) |
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6611332553 |
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1409474968 |
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1351151371 |
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135115138X |
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