Literary Identification from Charlotte Bronte to Tsitsi Dangarembga /

"The two nineteenth-century English authors discussed in this book, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot, established the conventions of the novel of female formation. Their twentieth-century English descendants, Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, and Jeanette Winterson, challenge the dominance of he...

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Main Author: Green, Laura Morgan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The novel of formation and literary identification. Experiencing literary identification ; Understanding literary identification ; Defending literary identification
  • 2. Coming together : George Eliot, Simone de Beauvoir, and Tsitsi Dangarembga. George Eliot : dark woman, dutiful daughter ; Simone de Beauvoir : my freedom, her death ; Tsitsi Dangarembga : school stories
  • 3. Coming apart : Charlotte Brontë, Jamaica Kincaid, and Tsitsi Dangarembga. Charlotte Brontë : the politics of loneliness ; Jamaica Kincaid : the politics of appropriation ; Tsitsi Dangarembga : the loneliness of politics
  • 4. Coming out : Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, and Jeanette Winterson. Voyaging out of the Victorian novel ; Who's afraid of Stephen Gordon? ; Books bought out of books.