Description |
1 online resource (332 pages) |
Series |
Reading Women Writing Ser. |
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Reading Women Writing Ser.
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Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
Contents |
Introduction : the great woman writer, the canon, and feminist tradition -- 1. Something to do : the ideology of influence and the context of contemporary feminism -- 2. The burden of personality : biographical criticism and narrative strategy -- 3. Eliot and Woolf as historians of the common life -- 4. Miracles in fetters: heroism and the selfless ideal -- 5. Trespassing in cultural history : the heroines of Romola and Orlando -- 6. 'God was cruel when he made women' : Felix Holt and The years -- 7. 'The ancient consciousness of woman' : a feminist archaeology of Daniel Deronda and between the acts. |
Summary |
In this forceful and compelling book, Alison Booth traces through the novels, essays, and other writings of George Eliot and Virginia Woolf radically conflicting attitudes on the part of each toward the possibility of feminine greatness. |
Subject |
Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- Great Britain.
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Indexed Term |
Eliot, 1819-1880 Criticism and interpretation |
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Eliot, George 1819-1880 Criticism and interpretation |
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English Women History and criticism |
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English fiction Women authors History and criticism |
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Women Great Britain |
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Women and literature Great Britain |
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Woolf, 1882-1941 Criticism and interpretation |
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Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941 Criticism and interpretation |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Booth, Alison Greatness Engendered : George Eliot and Virginia Woolf Ithaca : Cornell University Press,c2018 9781501727771 |
ISBN |
9781501722790 (electronic bk.) |
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1501722794 (electronic bk.) |
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