Victorian metafiction / Tabitha Sparks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sparks, Tabitha, author.

Series:

Victorian literature and culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

Authorship in literature.

Women authors in literature.

Novelists in literature.

Narration (Rhetoric)--History.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Fiction--Technique.

Fiction.

English fiction--Women authors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 200 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.

Summary:

"This book identifies the literary technique of metafiction in numerous novels by women writers (including Charlotte Brontë, Rhoda Broughton, Charlotte Riddell, and Eliza Lynn Linton) and argues that women used metafictional self-consciousness to draw the reader's attention to the book, and not the novelist. This counters a long-standing tradition that has read novels by women writers as heavily autobiographical and confessional"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Metafiction in "Novel Guise": Charlotte Bronte's Villette

2. Rhoda Broughton's Cometh Up as a Flower: "Like a Story-book!"

3. "The Difference between Authors and Their Books": Charlotte Riddell's A Struggle for Fame and Margaret Oliphant's The Athelings

4. Pseudonymity as Metafiction

5. Neo-Victorian Victorian Novels: The Writer-Heroine as a New Woman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Sparks, Tabitha. Victorian metafiction

ISBN:

9780813948690

081394869X

9780813948874

0813948878

OCLC:

1322367382