Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century: The Transatlantic Production of Fame and Gender (Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies)

by Brenda R . Weber (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2012

  $157.91

  Focusing on representations of women's literary celebrity in nineteenth-century biographies, autobiographical accounts, periodicals, and fiction, the author analyzes the complex codes connected to transatlantic formations of gender/sex, the body, and literary celebrity as women authors proactively resisted a backlash against their own success.