Colour'd Shadows: Contexts in Publishing, Printing, and Reading Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers

ISBN-13: 9781403966377 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 198 str.

Terence Allan Hoagwood; Kathryn Ledbetter

Opis

A large body of nineteenth-century British women's literature highlights the use of verbal illusions, even while its essence remains the premise of inward and personal experience. In the age of commercial distribution, the nonequivalence of personal feeling and printed product is sometimes rendered bitterly, but sometimes that nonequivalence evokes the opulence of artifice. "Colour'd Shadows" is a sequence of arguments about such relationships of material form and material exchange with literary meaning, proceeding from specific examples in the writings and careers of women writers and various publishing genres, including Victorian periodicals and literary annuals.

Recenzje

"By examining a wide range of literary works and literary-related activities by women in nineteenth-century Britain, "Colour'd Shadows" shifts the focus of scholarship away from the authority of self representation in determining meaning and onto the site, the method, and the time of manufacture of literary works; in this way, Hoagwood and Ledbetter are able to show that what appears to be transparent in literature (i.e., meaning and content) is in fact part of an illusion created by the processes of commodity production. This study is sure to trouble and enliven literary criticism and open a path to new sorts of materialist literary inquiry." - Daniel P. Watkins, Duquesne University

Spis treści

List of Illustrations Introduction Scholarly Fantasy and Material Reality in Mary Robinson's Sappho and Phaon Ideology and Textuality in Herman's Records of Woman Commodifying the 'Calumniated Woman' in Fraser's 'The Very Roads of Literature': Women Editors of Nineteenth-Century British Literary Annuals Volumptuous Opportunities: Visual Images in the Keepsake 'The Fate of Woman at its Root': Elizabeth Barrett's A Drama of Exile and Jean Ingelow's A Story of Doom 'Varied Forms Pass Glitt'ring': Violet Fane's Denzil Place: A Story in Verse Notes Bibliography

O autorze

TERENCE ALLAN HOAGWOOD is Professor of English at Texas A & M University, USA.

KATHRYN LEDBETTER is Assistant Professor of English at Texas State University, San Marcos, USA.