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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458167403321

Autore

Sabiston Elizabeth Jean <1937->

Titolo

Private sphere to world stage from Austen to Eliot [[electronic resource] /] / Elizabeth Sabiston

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aldershot, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate Pub. Co., c2008

ISBN

1-351-15138-X

1-281-33255-0

9786611332556

0-7546-9004-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/928

823.8099287

Soggetti

English literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Women and literature - England - History - 19th century

Women - Books and reading - England - History - 19th century

Sex role in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Brontèˆ'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

Sommario/riassunto

Elizabeth Sabiston examines works by Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Brontèˆ, 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.