Narrative in the professional age
Subtitle: transatlantic readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
By: by Jennifer Cognard-Black.
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Criticism and interpretation.; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 19th century.; American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Authorship -- Collaboration -- History -- 19th century.; American fiction -- English influences.; English fiction -- American influences.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "You are as thoroughly woman as you are English" : strong femininity and the making of George Eliot; title: "The wild and distracted call for proof" : Harriet Beecher Stowe's Lady Byron vindicated and the new professionalism; title: "A more living interest" : George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and the politics of American reception; title: "Proclaiming the royal lineage to the average mind" : high-art aesthetics, the novel, and competing femininities in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The story of Avis.