Fictions of Dissent - Reclaiming Authority in Transatlantic Women s Writing of Late

Informationen zum Autor Sigrid Anderson Cordell Klappentext Fin-de-siècle fiction by British female aesthetes and American women regionalists stages moments of rebellion when female characters rise up and insist on the right to maintain control of their creations. Cordell asserts that these revolutionary acts constitute a transatlantic conversation about aesthetic practice and creative ownership. Zusammenfassung Fin-de-siècle fiction by British female aesthetes and American women regionalists stages moments of rebellion when female characters rise up and insist on the right to maintain control of their creations. Cordell asserts that these revolutionary acts constitute a transatlantic conversation about aesthetic practice and creative ownership. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Th e Muse’s Revenge 1 ‘A Beautiful Translation from a Very Imperfect Original’: Mabel Wotton, Aestheticism and the Dilemma of Literary Borrowing 2 Vernon Lee and the Aesthetic Subject 3 Edith Wharton and the Artist as Connoisseur 4 Th e Aesthetics of Ownership in Women’s Stories

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• Authors: Sigrid Anderson Cordell, Anderson Cordell Sigrid, Sigrid Anderson Cordell
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.2010
• EAN: 9781848930230
• ISBN: 978-1-84893-023-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Gender and Genre
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Gender studies: women, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form