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020 _a9781138265653
028 _aBrijwasi Book Distributors
_b;H-87, Lalita Park,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-110092
_c;BW/005740
_d;20/02/2020
082 _a820.9928 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 _a Burlington, VT
_b : Ashgate
_c, ©2010.
300 _ax, 183 pages
_c;23 cm.
365 _b3787
505 _aIntroduction -- 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 _aLiterature
655 _aWomen and literature
_bEnglish literature--Women authors
700 _aJoanne Wilkes
942 _cBOOK