Title Victorian metafiction / Tabitha Sparks

Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 200 pages) Series Victorian literature and culture series Victorian literature and culture series. Contents Metafiction in 'Novel Guise': Charlotte Brontë's Villette -- Rhoda Broughton's Cometh Up as a Flower: '... Like a Story-book!' -- 'The Difference between Authors and Their Books': Charlotte Riddell's A Struggle for Fame and Margaret Oliphant's The Athelings -- Pseudonymity as Metafiction -- Neo-Victorian Victorian Novels: The Writer-Heroine as a New Woman 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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism Authorship in literature. Women authors in literature. Novelists in literature. Narration (Rhetoric) -- History Fiction -- Technique. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Authorship in literature English fiction English fiction -- Women authors Fiction -- Technique Narration (Rhetoric) Novelists in literature Women authors in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2022017038 ISBN 9780813948720 081394872X

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