Greatness Engendered

George Eliot and Virginia Woolf

Alison Booth (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

1992
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8014-9930-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Alison Booth is Professor of English at the University of Virginia and Director of the Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia Library. She is the author of How to Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present, winner of the Barbara Penny Kanner Award.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.2.1992
Reihe/Serie	Reading Women Writing
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	28 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8014-9930-5 / 0801499305
ISBN-13	978-0-8014-9930-2 / 9780801499302
Zustand	Neuware