Women and literary celebrity in the nineteenth century
Subtitle: the transatlantic production of fame and gender
By: by Brenda R. Weber
Series: Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409400738; 9781409400745
Subjects: English literature; History and criticism; American literature; Women authors; Sex role; Authorship; Women authors in literature; Fame; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a right to call herself famous; title: Reconstructing Charlotte : the making of celebrated "female genius"; title: "A sort of monster" : Fanny Fern, fame's appetite, and the construction of the multivalent famous female author; title: "Great genius breaks all bonds" : Margaret Oliphant and the female literary greats; title: Correcting the record, creating a new one : Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the scenes and Eliza Potter's A hair-dresser's experience in high life; title: The text as child : gender/sex and metaphors of maternity at the fin de siècle; title: Conclusion : Doing her level best to play the man's game : literary hermaphrodites and the exceptional woman; title: Afterword : in search of the cult of Charlotte.