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Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer / by Kanwit, John Paul M., 1972-

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Making the "America of Art" : Cultural Nationalism and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers / by Sofer, Naomi Z.

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Jane Austen among Women / by Kaplan, Deborah, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Portraits of the Woman Writer --…”
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Wilkie Collins and Copyright : Artistic Ownership in the Age of the Borderless Word / by Bisla, Sundeep, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Wilkie Collins, theorist of iterability -- The manuscript as writer's estate in Basil -- The woman in white : the perils of attempting to discipline the transatlantic, transhistorical narrative -- Over-doing things with words in 1862 : pretense and plain truth in No name -- Ingesting the other in Armadale -- The return of the author : privacy, publication, the mystery novel, and The moonstone -- Conclusion : real absences : Collins's waiting shadows.…”
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Victorian Sacrifice : Ethics and Economics in Mid-Century Novels / by Blumberg, Ilana M., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The heir of Redclyffe and the heiress : men, women, and Christian self-sacrifice -- Suicide, sin, and self-sacrifice in A tale of two cities -- "Love yourself as your neighbor" : guilt and the ethics of personal benefit in Adam Bede -- "Unnatural self-sacrifice" : Trollope's ethic of mutual benefit -- Collins' writerly sacrifice -- Conclusion : Robert Elsmere : the "true, best self" and the ideal of mutual service.…”
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Educating the Proper Woman Reader : Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation / by Phegley, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…The scene of women's reading : mid-nineteenth century culture, professional critics, and family literary magazines -- Piracy and the patriotic woman reader : making British literature American in Harper's new monthly magazine, 1850-1855 -- The education and professionalization of the woman reader : consolidating middleclass power in the Cornhill magazine, 1860-1864 -- (Im)proper reading for women : Belgravia magazine and the defense of the sensation novel, 1866-1871 -- Victoria's secret : the woman's movement from reader to writer/critic, 1863-1868.…”
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Life Is Elsewhere : Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 / by Lounsbery, Anne

Table of Contents: “…: Goncharov, Belinsky, and provincial taste -- Back home : the provincial lives of Turgenev's cosmopolitans -- Transcendence deferred : women writers in the provinces -- Melnikov and Leskov, or, What is regionalism in Russia? …”
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Hawthorne and the Real : Bicentennial Essays /

Table of Contents: “…Gollin -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer; or, The fleeing of the biographied / Brenda Wineapple.…”
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America's Bachelor Uncle : Thoreau and the American Polity / by Taylor, Bob Pepperman

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Critical Alliances : Economics and Feminism in English Women’s Writing, 1880–1914 / by Cameron, Brooke, 1976-

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Gerard Manley Hopkins : The Classical Background and Critical Reception of His Work / by Bender, Todd K.

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The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature / by Losano, Antonia Jacqueline

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Mixed Feelings : Tropes of Love in German Jewish Culture / by Garloff, Katja

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Building a National Literature : The Case of Germany, 1830–1870 / by Hohendahl, Peter Uwe

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The Chain of Things : Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850–1940 / by Downing, Eric

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In Contempt : Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature / by Kalsem, Kristin, 1962-

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Traveling Economies : American Women's Travel Writing / by Steadman, Jennifer Bernhardt, 1971-

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Executing Race : Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law / by Harris, Sharon M.

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