TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weber, Brenda R.
AU  - Weber, Brenda R
TI  - Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century : : the transatlantic production of fame and gender
T2  - Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies
SN  - 9781138260573
U1  - 820.9928 WEB 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT
PB  -  : Ashgate
KW  - English
KW  - English  and Old English literatures
KW  - English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures
KW  - English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
KW  - American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
KW  - Fame -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Sex role -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Women authors -- Biography -- History and criticism
N1  - Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Reconstructing Charlotte; 3 "Great genius breaks all bonds"; 4 Correcting the Record, Creating a New One; 5 The Text as Child; Conclusion; Afterword; Works Cited; Index
N2  - 	
Focusing on representations of women's literary celebrity in nineteenth-century nonfiction and fiction, Weber examines the transatlantic cultural politics of gender, sex and the body. Looking at discursive patterns and texts by authors like Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Fanny Fern, Margaret Oliphant and Eliza Potter that feature successful woman writers, Weber argues that discursive representations of the legitimately famous woman used celebrity as a tactic for altering perceptions about femininity and female identity
ER  -