Fictions of dissent
Subtitle: reclaiming authority in transatlantic women's writing of the late nineteenth century
By: by Sigrid Anderson Cordell
Contributors: ebrary, Inc
Series: Gender and Genre
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto; Pickering & Chatto Ltd
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9781848930230; 9781848930247
Subjects: History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Women authors; Women and literature; English fiction; American fiction; History; Women in literature
Description: Fin de siecle 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-135) and index.
Table of contents: title: 'A beautiful translation from a very imperfect original': Mabel Wotton, aestheticism and the dilemma of literary borrowing; title: Vernon Lee and the aesthetic subject; title: Edith Wharton and the artist as connoisseur; title: The aesthetics of ownership in women's stories.