The Politics of Writing: Julia Kavanagh, 1824-77
Eileen Fauset
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Description for The Politics of Writing: Julia Kavanagh, 1824-77
Paperback. Fauset sees Kavanagh as a significant but neglected writer and returns her to her proper place in the history of women's writing. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 448.
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 life. Throughout this study, the biographical element informs ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719090134
SKU
V9780719090134
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99-15
About Eileen Fauset
Eileen Fauset was formerly a Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds, Bretton Hall Campus and has published extensively on Irish and British women’s writing -- .
Reviews for The Politics of Writing: Julia Kavanagh, 1824-77
‘Fauset is to be congratulated for bringing this self-effacing writer to wider public attention – at last fulfilling Bronte ¨’s wish that Kavanagh should ‘struggle ere long into the sunshine’. Rather than being relegated to the ranks of ‘silly women novelists’, Kavanagh clearly deserves scholarly attention for her contribution to literary history, and Fauset’s book is a significant step on ... Read more