Azelina Flint

The Matrilineal Heritage of Louisa May Alcott and Christina Rossetti (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In an unprecedented comparison of two of the most important female authors of the nineteenth-century, Azelina Flint foregrounds the influence of the religious communities that shaped Louisa May Alcott's and Christina Rossetti's visions of female creativity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000416800
• Artikelnr.: 62057047

Autorenporträt

Azelina Flint is a Teaching Fellow of American Literature and Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is a graduate of the University of East Anglia's American Studies PhD program where she was awarded an AHRC 'CHASE' fellowship to support her research on Alcott and Rossetti. Azelina's research on the Alcott family has been supported by the Fulbright Commission and she holds MA degrees in Victorian Studies and English Literature from Royal Holloway and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, respectively. Flint has published articles on Alcott and Rossetti in Comparative American Studies and the Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, while further research in American and Victorian Studies has appeared in a range of peer-reviewed publications.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 - "I am even I" Rossetti and Alcott Resisting Male Authority
Part I - "Left-handed Societies" Women's Life-Writing
Chapter 2 - "Renunciation Is the Law, Devotion to God's Will the Gospel":
The Empowerment of Others in the Alcott Women's Life-Writing
Chapter 3 - "For Every Human Creature May Claim to Strength": The Rossetti
Women's Elevation of the Left Hand
Part II - "A Loving League of Sisters": Alcott and Rossetti's Promotion of
Christian Values through the Ties of Sisterhood
Chapter 4 - We Are All Relative Creatures: The Transformative Power of
Sisterhood in Rossetti's Maude
Chapter 5 - "Happy Women": Alcott's Sisterly Utopia
Conclusion
Coda - Nineteenth-Century Women's Matrilineal Theologies of Renunciation
Works Cited
Appendix 1 - "Rolf Walden Emmerboy" Transcription
Appendix 2 - "Two Scenes in a Family" Transcription
Appendix 3 - "Wealth" Transcription
Appendix 4 - "Our Madonna" Transcription
Appendix 5 - "Story of An Apple" Transcription
Appendix 6 - "Hymn For Ascension Day" Transcription
Appendix 7 - "Extracts From Bradley's Sermons" Transcription
Appendix 8 - "A Morning Hymn" Transcription
Appendix 9 - "The Maid of Sorrow" Transcription