Victoria Olwell shows how American fiction helped to catalyze democratic models of female genius, especially in the work of such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Mary Hunter Austin, Jessie Fauset, and Gertrude Stein.
Victoria Olwell shows how American fiction helped to catalyze democratic models of female genius, especially in the work of such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Mary Hunter Austin, Jessie Fauset, and Gertrude Stein.
Victoria Olwell teaches English at the University of Virginia.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: The Work of Genius Chapter 1. "It Spoke Itself": Genius, Political Speech, and Louisa May Alcott's Work Chapter 2. Genius and the Demise of Radical Publics in Henry James's The Bostonians Chapter 3. Trilby: Double Personality, Intellectual Property, and Mass Genius Chapter 4. Mary Hunter Austin: Genius, Variation, and the Identity Politics of Innovation Chapter 5. Imitation as Circulation: Racial Genius and the Problem of National Culture in Jessie Redmon Fauset's There Is Confusion Coda: Gertrude Stein in Occupied France Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Work of Genius Chapter 1. "It Spoke Itself": Genius, Political Speech, and Louisa May Alcott's Work Chapter 2. Genius and the Demise of Radical Publics in Henry James's The Bostonians Chapter 3. Trilby: Double Personality, Intellectual Property, and Mass Genius Chapter 4. Mary Hunter Austin: Genius, Variation, and the Identity Politics of Innovation Chapter 5. Imitation as Circulation: Racial Genius and the Problem of National Culture in Jessie Redmon Fauset's There Is Confusion Coda: Gertrude Stein in Occupied France Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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