Greatness Engendered George Eliot and Virginia Woolf
The egotism that fuels the desire for greatness has been associated exclusively with men, according to one feminist view; yet many women cannot suppress the need to strive for greatness. In this forceful and compelling book, Alison Booth traces through the novels, essays, and other writings of Georg...
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| Format: | Électronique Chapitre de livre |
| Langue: | anglais |
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Ithaca
Cornell University Press
1992
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| Collection: | Reading Women Writing
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| Résumé: | The egotism that fuels the desire for greatness has been associated exclusively with men, according to one feminist view; yet many women cannot suppress the need to strive for greatness. In this forceful and compelling book, Alison Booth traces through the novels, essays, and other writings of George Eliot and Virginia Woolf radically conflicting attitudes on the part of each toward the possibility of feminine greatness. Examining the achievements of Eliot and Woolf in their social contexts, she provides a challenging model of feminist historical criticism. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 electronic resource (336 p.) |
| ISBN: | 33vt-yb21 9781501722790 9781501727771 9780801426285 9781501722806 |
| Accès: | Open Access |