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020			_a9781138265653
028			_aInternational Book Distributors _b;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002 _c;112922 _d;13/11/2018
082			_a820.99287 WIL
100			_aJoanne Wilkes
245			_aWomen reviewing women in nineteenth-century Britain _b: the critical reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot _c/Joanne Wilkes
260			_aLondon _b:Routlage _c,2016
300			_ax,183 Pages _c;24 cm.
365			_b3649
505			_a 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.
520			_aFocusing 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.
650			_aEnglish literature
655			_aWomen and literature
700			_aJoanne Wilkes
942			_cBOOK
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