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Author Booth, Alison.

Title Greatness engendered : George Eliot and Virginia Woolf / Alison Booth.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1992.

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Description 1 online resource (332 pages)
Series Reading Women Writing Ser.
Reading Women Writing Ser.
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.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation.
English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- Great Britain.
Indexed Term Eliot, 1819-1880 Criticism and interpretation
Eliot, George 1819-1880 Criticism and interpretation
English Women History and criticism
English fiction Women authors History and criticism
Women Great Britain
Women and literature Great Britain
Woolf, 1882-1941 Criticism and interpretation
Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941 Criticism and interpretation
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Booth, Alison Greatness Engendered : George Eliot and Virginia Woolf Ithaca : Cornell University Press,c2018 9781501727771
ISBN 9781501722790 (electronic bk.)
1501722794 (electronic bk.)
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