| Description |
xvi, 273 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Thinking women and Victorian ideas -- Pt. One. Harriet Martineau: a career of auxiliary usefulness -- 1. Textual services -- 2. Political economy and feminist politics -- 3. The social parent: slavery, history, and reform -- 4. A novel liberty: Deerbrook -- Pt. Two. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 'Art's a service' -- 5. A clerisy of poets and the softer sex -- 6. The social wound and the poetics of healing -- 7. Defiled text and political poetry -- 8. Woman's art as servant of patriarchy: the vision of Aurora Leigh -- Pt. Three. George Eliot: the authority of a woman intellectual -- 9. Iconic sage -- 10. Instructed women and the case of Romola -- 11. Subversive sexual politics: Felix Holt, the Radical -- 12. Maggie Tulliver's desire -- Afterword: 'The authority to speak' |
| Analysis |
English literature Women writers, 1800-1900 - Critical studies |
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Fiction in English Eliot, George - Critical studies |
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Poetry in English Browning, Elizabeth Barrett - Critical studies |
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Prose in English Martineau, Harriet - Critical studies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 256-265 |
| Subject |
Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876.
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Eliot, George
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Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- criticism & interpretation mesh
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| SUBJECT |
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79067862 -- Criticism and interpretation. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005576
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Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876 -- Criticism and interpretation |
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Women authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Women & literature http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42026678 -- Great Britain.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79023147
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English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Feminism and literature -- Great Britain.
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Feminism in literature.
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Patriarchy -- Great Britain.
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Women and literature -- Great Britain.
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Women authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Women intellectuals -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
86023989 |
| ISBN |
0801419654 |
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0801494141 (paperback) |
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