Aristocratic women and the literary nation, 1832-1867
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Aristocratic women and the literary nation, 1832-1867
(Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2008
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 211-230
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Aristocratic women flourished in the Victorian literary world, their combination of class privilege and gendered exclusion generating distinctively socialized modes of participation in cultural and political activity. Their writing offers an important trope through which to consider the nature of political, private and public spheres.
Table of Contents
Contents Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: CLASS AND AUTHORSHIP Aristocratic Lives: Life-Writing, Class and Authority Dilettantes and Dandies: Authorship and the Silver Fork Novel Silly Novels and Lady Novelists: Inside the Literary Marketplace PART II: WRITING THE NATION STATE Wrongs Make Rebels: Polemical Voices The Spectacle of Fiction: Self, Society and the Novel Affairs of State: Aristocratic Women and the Politics of Influence Conclusion: 1867 and Beyond Works Cited Notes
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