Focusing on representations of women's literary celebrity in nineteenth-century nonfiction and fiction, Weber examines the transatlantic cultural politics of gender, sex and the body. Looking at discursive patterns and texts by authors like Charlotte BrontÃ', Elizabeth Gaskell, Fanny Fern, Margaret Oliphant and Eliza Potter that feature successful woman writers, Weber argues that discursive representations of the legitimately famous woman used celebrity as a tactic for altering perceptions about femininity and female identity.
Focusing on representations of women's literary celebrity in nineteenth-century nonfiction and fiction, Weber examines the transatlantic cultural politics of gender, sex and the body. Looking at discursive patterns and texts by authors like Charlotte BrontÃ', Elizabeth Gaskell, Fanny Fern, Margaret Oliphant and Eliza Potter that feature successful woman writers, Weber argues that discursive representations of the legitimately famous woman used celebrity as a tactic for altering perceptions about femininity and female identity.
Brenda R. Weber is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor of English, Cultural Studies, Communication and Culture, and American Studies at Indiana University, USA.
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Contents: Introduction: a right to call herself famous Reconstructing Charlotte: the making of a celebrated 'female genius' 'A sort of monster': Fanny Fern, fame's appetite and the construction of the multivalent famous female author 'Great genius breaks all bonds': Margaret Oliphant and the female literary greats Correcting the record, creating a new one: Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes and Eliza Potter's A Hair-dresser's Experience in High Life The text as child: gender/sex and metaphors of maternity at the fin de siècle Conclusion: doing her level best to play the man's game: literary hermaphrodites and the exceptional woman Afterword: in search of the cult of Charlotte Works cited Index.
Contents: Introduction: a right to call herself famous Reconstructing Charlotte: the making of a celebrated 'female genius' 'A sort of monster': Fanny Fern, fame's appetite and the construction of the multivalent famous female author 'Great genius breaks all bonds': Margaret Oliphant and the female literary greats Correcting the record, creating a new one: Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes and Eliza Potter's A Hair-dresser's Experience in High Life The text as child: gender/sex and metaphors of maternity at the fin de siècle Conclusion: doing her level best to play the man's game: literary hermaphrodites and the exceptional woman Afterword: in search of the cult of Charlotte Works cited Index.
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