Narrative in the Professional Age : Transatlantic Readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and George Eliot

ISBN-13: 9780415969949 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 214 str.

Jennifer Cognard-Black

Opis

Challenging previous studies that claim anxiety and antagonism between transatlantic Victorian authors, this study presents a history of transatlantic authorship that examines how three writers invented a collaborative aesthetics both within and against the dominant discourse of professionalism.

Recenzje

"Cognard-Black’s study engages and extends transatlantic studies in significant ways. She resists the ‘antagonist thesis’ of Robert Weisbuch and other critics who argue that nineteenth-century American writers felt a sense of inferiority to their British counterparts, suffering a sort of Bloomian ‘anxiety of influence.’ Cognard-Black argues instead that the transatlantic relationships of Stowe, Eliot, and Phelps were not simply examples of British influence on American writers..., but demonstrate literary collaboration and interdependence.... Narrative in the Professional Age demonstrate[s] the range, flexibility, and necessity of transatlantic literary studies..., [contributing] to the growing body of transatlantic literary, cultural, and intellectual history." —Whitney Womack Smith, Miami University, USA

O autorze

Jennifer Cognard-Black teaches in the Department of English Language and Literature at St. Mary's College of Maryland.