Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers

Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers

A Hall of Mirrors and the Long Nineteenth Century

Ayres, Brenda

Springer International Publishing AG

08/2018

291

Mole

Inglês

9783319859910

15 a 20 dias

454

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Introduction; or, What You Will.- Genteel Appropriations of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762): Sex, Sensibility, and Taste in Victorian Family Biography by Magdalena Nerio.- A Vindication of the Woman Known as Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797).- The Constructed Letters of Mary Hays (1759-1843).- So Irish; so modish, so mixtish, so wild": Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) (1781-1838) and The Makings of a Life.-Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838).- Whose Poetess?The After-Lives of Felicia Hemans (1793-1835): Biographical Misconstructions.-"Stuck Through with a Pin and Beautifully Preserved": Curating the Life of "Elizabeth Barrett Browning".- Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) Autobiography, Biography, and Literary Legacies.- Caroline Norton (1808-1877): The Injured Wife, Scandal, and the Politics of Feminist Memory .- The Biographer as Biographee: Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865).- Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855): (Un)Masked Author to Mythic Woman .- An Unconventional and Contradictory Life: Lady Florence Dixie.- A Woman Whom Men Could More Than Love": Transfiguring the Unlovely in George Eliot (1819-1880).- Irony upon Irony: The Persistence of Gordon Haight's Perceptions of Edith Simcox (1844-1901).
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Long Nineteenth Century;Life Writing;Women Writers;Mary Wollstonecraft;Sydney Owenson;Gordon Haight;Charlotte Bronte;Sexism in Biography;British and Irish Literature