03122nam 2200637Ia 450 991082097470332120230721030706.01-351-15138-X1-281-33255-097866113325560-7546-9004-0(CKB)1000000000401628(EBL)438902(OCoLC)560651326(SSID)ssj0000227670(PQKBManifestationID)11198804(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000227670(PQKBWorkID)10269690(PQKB)11784697(MiAaPQ)EBC438902(Au-PeEL)EBL438902(CaPaEBR)ebr10224499(CaONFJC)MIL133255(EXLCZ)99100000000040162820070618d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPrivate sphere to world stage from Austen to Eliot[electronic resource] /Elizabeth SabistonAldershot, England ;Burlington, VT Ashgate Pub. Co.c20081 online resource (225 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7546-6174-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Brontë'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; IndexElizabeth Sabiston examines works by Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, 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.English literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismWomen and literatureEnglandHistory19th centuryWomenBooks and readingEnglandHistory19th centurySex role in literatureEnglish literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Women and literatureHistoryWomenBooks and readingHistorySex role in literature.810.9/928823.8099287Sabiston Elizabeth Jean1937-449283MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820974703321Private sphere to world stage from Austen to Eliot4051122UNINA