02279nam a22002297a 4500 56466 56466 20200305153509.0 200305b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781138265653 Brijwasi Book Distributors ;H-87, Lalita Park,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-110092 ;BW/005740 ;20/02/2020 820.9928 WIL Joanne Wilkes Women reviewing women in nineteenth-century Britain : the critical reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot /Joanne Wilkes Burlington, VT : Ashgate , ©2010. x, 183 pages ;23 cm. 3787 Introduction -- Maria Jane Jewsbury and Sara Coleridge -- Writing women's literary history : Hannah Lawrance, Jane Williams and Julia Kavanagh -- Anne Mozley -- Margaret Oliphant and Mary Augusta Ward -- Conclusion. Focusing particularly on the critical reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot, Joanne Wilkes offers in-depth examinations of reviews by eight female critics. What they wrote about women writers, and what their writings tell us about the critics' own sense of themselves as women writers, reveal the distinctive character of nineteenth-century women's contributions to literary history." "Wilkes explores the different choices these critics, writing when women had to grapple with limiting assumptions about female intellectual capacities, made about how to disseminate their own writing. While several publishing in periodicals wrote anonymously, others published books, articles and reviews under their own names. Wilkes teases out the distinctiveness of nineteenth-century women's often ignored contributions to the critical reception of canonical women authors, and also devotes space to the pioneering efforts of Lawrance, Kavangh and Williams to draw attention to the long tradition of female literary activity up to the nineteenth century. She draws on commentary by male critics of the period as well, to provide context for this important contribution to the recuperation of women's critical discourse in ninteenth-century Britain. Literature Women and literature English literature--Women authors Joanne Wilkes BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2020-03-05 Brijwasi Book Distributors 3787.00 1 820.9928 WIL 27428 2023-05-02 00:00:00 2023-04-04 2020-03-05 BOOK