Private sphere to world stage from Austen to Eliot / Elizabeth Sabiston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sabiston, Elizabeth Jean, 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Women and literature--England--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

Women--Books and reading--England--History--19th century.

Women.

Sex role in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Elizabeth Sabiston examines works by Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot, offering a fresh perspective on the transition of women writers from the private to the public sphere. What emerges, particularly in comparisons of the factory novels of Gaskell with the slavery writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, is a portrait of the subversive and influential strategies these writers used to transcend national and gender boundaries.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Figure; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction-"Letters to the World": From Private Sphere to World Stage; 2 Jane Austen's Art of Fiction: The Hidden Manifesto in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; 3 Not Carved in Stone: Women's Hearts and Women's Texts in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre; 4 Cathy's Book: The Ghost-text in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights; 5 "The Iron of Slavery in Her Heart": The Literary Relationship of Elizabeth Gaskell and Harriet Beecher Stowe; 6 George Eliot's Daniel Deronda: "A Daniel Come to Judgment"; 7 Conclusion-and a New Beginning; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-351-15138-X

1-281-33255-0

9786611332556

0-7546-9004-0

OCLC:

560651326