Aristocratic women and the literary nation, 1832-1867 / Muireann O'Cinneide
- 作者： 璽O'Cinn璽eideMuireann 1976-
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- 出版： Basingstoke [England] ;New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2008
- 叢書名： Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
- 主題： English fiction--19th century--History and criticism , Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century , Upper class--Great Britain--History--19th century , Authors and publishers--Great Britain--History--19th century , Literature publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century , Authors and readers--Great Britain--History--19th century. , Books and reading--Great Britain--History--19th century , Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century
- ISBN： 9780230583320 、 0230583326
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- 書目註：Aristocratic Women and the Literary Nation, 1832-1867 offers a literary complement to recent historians' emphasis upon the cultural visibility and significance of the British aristocracy duringthe Victorian period. Aristocratic women benefited from a leisured model of socialised dilettante interaction that allowed them both to maintain and to markettheir high social status through their writing, but this model could prove a liability in attempts at serious social and/or intellectual engagement. Instead, these women became targets for critiques aimed at defining certain forms of individual and national identity, even as they themselves adapted to changing value schemes. Aristocratic women's writing therefore offers an important literary and cultural trope through which to consider gendered models of influence, elite identities, the nature of politics, private and public spheres, marriage, professional identities, literary hierarchies, imperial experiences, and ultimately the ongoing representation of the nation state between the Reform Bills of 1832 and 1867 Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-230) and index
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- 系統號： 005170597 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
Aristocratic women flourished in the Victorian literary world, their combination of class privilege and gendered exclusion generating distinctively socialized modes of participation in cultural and political activity. Their writing offers an important trope through which to consider the nature of political, private and public spheres.
內容註
-- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: CLASS ANDAUTHORSHIP -- Aristocratic Lives: Life-Writing, Class and Authority --Dilettantes and Dandies: Authorship and the Silver ForkNovel -- SillyNovels and Lady Novelists: Inside the Literary Marketplace -- PART II:WRITING THE NATION STATE -- Wrongs Makes Rebels: Polemical Voices -- The Spectacle of Fiction: Self, Society and theNovel -- Affairs of State: Aristocratic Women and the Politics of Influence -- Conclusion: 1867andBeyond -- Works Cited -- Notes