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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sparks, Tabitha

Titel

Victorian metafiction

Ist Teil von

• Victorian literature and culture series

Ort / Verlag

Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Metafiction in 'Novel Guise': Charlotte Brontë's Villette -- Rhoda Broughton's Cometh Up as a Flower: '... Like a Story-book!' -- 'The Difference between Authors and Their Books': Charlotte Riddell's A Struggle for Fame and Margaret Oliphant's The Athelings -- Pseudonymity as Metafiction -- Neo-Victorian Victorian Novels: The Writer-Heroine as a New Woman
• "This book identifies the literary technique of metafiction in numerous novels by women writers (including Charlotte Brontë, Rhoda Broughton, Charlotte Riddell, and Eliza Lynn Linton) and argues that women used metafictional self-consciousness to draw the reader's attention to the book, and not the novelist. This counters a long-standing tradition that has read novels by women writers as heavily autobiographical and confessional"--