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...
A large body of nineteenth-century British women's literature highlights the use of verbal illusions, even while its essence remains the premise of in...
Terence Allan Hoagwood Kathryn Ledbetter T. Hoagwood
"Colour'd Shadows" interprets nineteenth-century British women writers' works in connection with the material contexts of writing, printing, and publishing, and the book illustrates methods of "reading" the material book for what it reveals about the meanings of the literary work that it embodies.
"Colour'd Shadows" interprets nineteenth-century British women writers' works in connection with the material contexts of writing, printing, and publi...
