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The genius of democracy : fictions of gender and citizenship in the United States, 1860-1945 / Victoria Olwell.
LIBRA PS374.W6 O46 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olwell, Victoria.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction--Women authors.
- Women in public life--United States--History.
- Women in public life.
- Women and democracy--United States--History.
- Women and democracy.
- Genius.
- Genius in literature.
- Women in literature.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 290 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 "It Spoke Itself": Genius, Political Speech, and Louisa May Alcott's Work 33
- Chapter 2 Genius and the Demise of Radical Publics in Henry James's The Bostonians 66
- Chapter 3 Trilby: Double Personality, Intellectual Property, and Mass Genius 101
- Chapter 4 Mary Hunter Austin: Genius, Variation, and the Identity Politics of Innovation 134
- Chapter 5 Imitation as Circulation: Racial Genius and the Problem of National Culture in Jessie Redmon Fauset's There Is Confusion 177.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812243246
- 0812243242
- OCLC:
- 696092184
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