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Author Fauset, Eileen

Title The politics of writing
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (305 pages)
Contents 9780719055577; 9780719055577; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Julia Kavanagh; 2 The novel; 3 Woman in France during the Eighteenth Century; 4 French Women of Letters and English Women of Letters; 5 A Summer and Winter in the Two Sicilies; Postscript; Notes; Julia Kavanagh: publications; Select bibliography; Index
Summary Julia Kavanagh was a popular and internationally published writer of the mid-nineteenth century whose collective body of work included fiction, biography, critical studies of French and English women writers, and travel writing. In this critically engaged study Eileen Fauset sees Kavanagh as a significant but neglected writer and returns her to her proper place in the history of women's writing. With few known primary sources to go on the author manages, through her skilful selection of letters, official documents and historical commentary, to piece together some of the jigsaw of Kavanagh's lif
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Subject Kavanagh, Julia, 1824-1877 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Kavanagh, Julia, 1824-1877 fast
Subject English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Sex role in literature.
English literature -- Irish authors
English literature -- Women authors
Sex role in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781847792952
1847792952