The Social Life of Criticism : Gender, Critical Writing, and the Politics of Belonging /
"The Social Life of Criticism explores the cultural representation of the female critic in Victorian Britain, focusing especially on how women writers imagined themselves--in literary essays, periodical reviews, and even works of fiction--as participants in complex networks of literary exchange...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2016]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Reimagined Communities: An Introduction; 2. The Critic as Clubman: Origins of the Social Life of Criticism; Virtual Networking: Periodical Clubs and the Public Sphere; Gendering Discourse: Collectivity and Female Judgment; Tattling on Tradition: The Cases of Jenny Distaff and Mrs. Crackenthorpe; A Network of Spies: The Female Spectator; 3. The Critic as Interlocutor: Anna Jameson and the Politics of Dialogue; The Round Table: Male Collectivity and the Nineteenth-Century Critic; Scripting Gender: Critical Discourse and the Politics of Gallantry.
- Solitary Confinement: Anna Jameson and the Sentimental Woman WriterOpening a Dialogue: Female Criticsin Conversation; 4. The Critic as Sociologist: Sociable Dissent in the Work of George Eliot; Laws of Progress: The Sociological Foundations of the Westminster Review; A Common Fund: The Female Salon and Critical Collectivity; A Fellowship in High Knowledge: Dorothea Brooke as Female Critic; The Critic in Exile: Impressions of Theophrastus Such; 5. Critics without Borders: The Antisocial Criticism of Eliza Lynn Linton and Vernon Lee; Tootles and Screeds: The Problem of Classification.
- The Shrieking Sisterhood: Eliza Lynn Linton and the Limits of CommunityA First-Rate Fellow: The Case of Jane Osborne; An Antisocial Tirade: Vernon Lee's Althea; Epilogue; A Society of Outsiders: Feminist Criticism and Collectivity after the Nineteenth Century; Notes; Bibliography; Index.