Engaging with Shakespeare: Responses of George Eliot and other Women Novelists

by Marianne L. Novy

Overview

In Engaging with Shakespeare: Responses of George Eliot and Other Women Novelists,Marianne Novy combines feminist criticism of women writers with feminist criticism of Shakespeare by examining how a number of novels by women rewrite his works and his cultural image.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781587292965
Publisher:	University of Iowa Press
Publication date:	09/01/1998
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	286
File size:	803 KB

About the Author

Marianne Novy is professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Her previous books are Love's Argument: Gender Relations in Shakespeare and the edited anthologiesWomen's ReVisions of Shakespeare: On Responses of Dickinson, Woolf, H. D., George Eliot, and Others and Cross-Cultural Performances: Difference in Women's ReVisions of Shakespeare.

Table of Contents

Table of contents:  Chapter 1 - Women Novelists' Engagements with Shakespeare: Prehistory, Early Tradition, and Critical Contexts Chapter 2 - Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte Chapter 3 - George Eliot: Early Works Chapter 4 - Felix Holt Chapter 5 - Middlemarch Chapter 6 - Daniel Deronda Chapter 7 - Uses of Shakespeare by Twentieth-Century Women Novelists Chapter 8 - Shakespeare in the Cultural Hybridity of Contemporary Women Novelists