Aristocratic Women and the Literary Nation, 1832-1867

by M. O'Cinneide

Overview

Arisratic women flourished in the Victorian literary world, their combination of class privilege and gendered exclusion generating distinctively socialized modes of participation in cultural and political activity. Their writing offers an important trope through which to consider the nature of political, private and public spheres.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349361113
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2008
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Edition description:	1st ed. 2008
Pages:	241
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

MUIREANN O'CINNEIDE is a Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her research centres on women's writing, politics, and empire.

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: CLASS AND AUTHORSHIP Arisratic Lives: Life-Writing, Class and Authority Dilettantes and Dandies: Authorship and the Silver Fork Novel Silly Novels and Lady Novelists: Inside the Literary Marketplace PART II: WRITING THE NATION STATE Wrongs Make Rebels: Polemical Voices The Spectacle of Fiction: Self, Society and the Novel Affairs of State: Arisratic Women and the Politics of Influence Conclusion: 1867 and Beyond Works Cited Notes

Editorial Reviews

"[This] book will be of interest to both feminists and historians of the novel." - Miriam Elizabeth Burstein, College at Brockport, SUNY

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