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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453125603321

Autore

Cordell Sigrid Anderson

Titolo

Fictions of dissent : reclaiming authority in transatlantic women's writing of the late nineteenth century / / by Sigrid Anderson Cordell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-32406-4

1-138-66124-4

1-315-65610-8

1-317-32407-2

1-84893-024-0

9786612640377

1-282-64037-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (149 p.)

Collana

Gender and genre ; ; no. 4

Disciplina

823.8099287

Soggetti

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Women and literature - United States - History - 19th century

Women in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2010 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd."--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-135) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 'A Beautiful Translation from a Very Perfect Original'; 2. Vernon Lee and the Aesthetic Subject; 3. Edith Wharton and the Artist as Connoisseur; 4. The Aesthetics od Ownership in Women's Stories; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Fin-de-siècle fiction by British female aesthetes and American women regionalists stages moments of rebellion when female characters rise up and insist on the right to maintain control of their creations. Cordell asserts that these revolutionary acts constitute a transatlantic



conversation about aesthetic practice and creative ownership.