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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465955003321

Autore

Fauset Eileen

Titolo

The politics of writing [[electronic resource] ] : Julia Kavanagh, 1824-77 / / Eileen Fauset

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, c2009

ISBN

1-84779-526-9

1-78170-222-5

1-84779-295-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

823.8

Soggetti

English literature - Irish authors - History and criticism

English literature - Women authors - History and criticism

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 (p. [276]-286) and index.

Nota di contenuto

9780719055577; 9780719055577; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Julia Kavanagh; 2 The novel; 3 Woman in France during the Eighteenth Century; 4 French Women of Letters and English Women of Letters; 5 A Summer and Winter in the Two Sicilies; Postscript; Notes; Julia Kavanagh: publications; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Julia Kavanagh was a popular and internationally published writer of the mid-nineteenth century whose collective body of work included fiction, biography, critical studies of French and English women writers, and travel writing. In this critically engaged study Eileen Fauset sees Kavanagh as a significant but neglected writer and returns her to her proper place in the history of women's writing.With few known primary sources to go on the author manages, through her skilful selection of letters, official documents and historical commentary, to piece together some of the jigsaw of Kavanagh's lif