Narrative in the Professional Age
Transatlantic Readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and George Eliot
Published on 2. March 2004
216 pages
978-1-135-87942-6 (ISBN)
Description
Challenging previous studies that claim anxiety and antagonism between transatlantic Victorian authors, Jennifer Cognard-Black uncovers a model of reciprocal influence among three of the most popular women writers of the era. Combining analyses of personal correspondence and print culture with close readings of key narratives, this study presents a
Reviews / Votes
"Cognard-Black's study engages and extends transatlantic studies in significant ways. She resists the 'antagonist thesis' of Robert Weisbuch and other critics who argue that nineteenth-century American writers felt a sense of inferiority to their British counterparts, suffering a sort of Bloomian 'anxiety of influence.' Cognard-Black argues instead that the transatlantic relationships of Stowe, Eliot, and Phelps were not simply examples of British influence on American writers..., but demonstrate literary collaboration and interdependence.... Narrative in the Professional Age demonstrate[s] the range, flexibility, and necessity of transatlantic literary studies..., [contributing] to the growing body of transatlantic literary, cultural, and intellectual history." -Whitney Womack Smith, Miami University, USAMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
8 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
8 halftones
File size
1,92 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-135-87942-6 (9781135879426)
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Jennifer Cognard-Black
Narrative in the Professional Age
Transatlantic Readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and George Eliot
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Jennifer Cognard-Black
Narrative in the Professional Age
Transatlantic Readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and George Eliot
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03/2004
1st Edition
Routledge
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Persons
Jennifer Cognard-Black
Content
List of Illustrations, List of Cited Collections, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter One: "You Are as Thoroughly Woman as You Are English": Strong Femininity and the Making of George Eliot, Chapter Two: "The Wild and Distracted Call for Proof": Harriet Beecher Stowe's Lady Byron Vindicated and the New Professionalism, Chapter Three: "A More Living Interest": George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and the Politics of American Reception, Chapter Four: "Proclaiming the Royal Lineage to the Average Mind": High-Art Aesthetics, the Novel, and Competing Femininities in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Story of Avis, Afterword, Notes, Bibliography, Index
