224 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Emily Dickinson's poem, 'This is my letter to the World/ That never wrote to Me --', opens the Introduction, which focuses on the near-anonymity of nineteenth-century women novelists. Close readings of works by five British novelists Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot offer persuasive accounts of the ways in which women used stealth tactics to outmaneuver... Read more
Contents: Introduction - 'Letters to the world': from private sphere to world stage; Jane Austen's art of fiction: the hidden manifesto in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; Not carved in stone: women's hearts and women's texts in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre; Cathy's book: the ghost-text in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights; 'The iron of slavery in her heart': the literary relationship of Elizabeth Gaskell and Harriet Beecher Stowe; George Eliot's Daniel Deronda: 'A Daniel come to judgment'; Conclusion - and a new beginning; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Elizabeth Sabiston is Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar (English Department) at York University, Toronto, Canada
