Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century

Focusing on representations of women's literary celebrity in nineteenth-century nonfiction and fiction, Brenda R. Weber examines the transatlantic cultural politics of gender, sex, and the body. Looking at discursive patterns and texts by authors like Charlotte Bront , Elizabeth Gaskell, Fanny Fern, Margaret Oliphant, and Eliza Potter that feature successful woman writers, Weber argues that discursive representations of the legitimately famous woman used celebrity as a tactic for...
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Focusing on representations of women's literary celebrity in nineteenth-century nonfiction and fiction, Brenda R. Weber examines the transatlantic cultural politics of gender, sex, and the body. Looking at discursive patterns and texts by authors like Charlotte Bront , Elizabeth Gaskell, Fanny Fern, Margaret Oliphant, and Eliza Potter that feature successful woman writers, Weber argues that discursive representations of the legitimately famous woman used celebrity as a tactic for altering perceptions about femininity and female identity.