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"This book identifies the literary technique of metafiction in numerous novels by women writers (including Charlotte Brontë, Rhoda Broughton, Charlotte Riddell, and Eliza Lynn Linton) and argues that women used metafictional self-consciousness to draw the reader's attention to the book, a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sparks, Tabitha (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Women authors in literature.
Novelists in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Fiction > Technique.
English fiction > Women authors.
English fiction.
Authorship in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History.
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"This book identifies the literary technique of metafiction in numerous novels by women writers (including Charlotte Brontë, Rhoda Broughton, Charlotte Riddell, and Eliza Lynn Linton) and argues that women used metafictional self-consciousness to draw the reader's attention to the book, and not the novelist. This counters a long-standing tradition that has read novels by women writers as heavily autobiographical and confessional"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (212 pages).
ISBN:9780813948720

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