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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
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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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