Shakespeare and Victorian Women

Informationen zum Autor Gail Marshall is Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the Department of English! Oxford Brookes University. Klappentext The first full-length study of Shakespeare's influence on Victorian women writers! actresses and readers. Zusammenfassung This first full-length study of the influence of Shakespeare and his plays on Victorian women sheds light on the work of actresses and writers! the reading habits of women generally! and the education of girls in the nineteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Shakespeare and Victorian girls' education; 2. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Shakespeare: translating the language of intimacy; 3. 'She had made him, as it were, the air she lived in': Shakespeare, Helen Faucit and Fanny Kemble; 4. George Eliot and Shakespeare: defamiliarising 'second nature'; 5. Socialism, nationalism and Stratford: Shakespeare and the New Woman at the fin de siècle; 6. Shakespeare and the actress in the 1890s.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Gail Marshall, Gail (Oxford Brookes University) Marshall
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 19.03.2009
• EAN: 9780521515238
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51523-8
• Seiten: 224
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft