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The Social Life of Criticism. Gender, Critical Writing, and the Politics of Belonging.
Kimberly J. Stern
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Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JFFK; JFSJ1; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
The Social Life of Criticism explores the cultural representation of thefemale critic in Victorian Britain, focusing especially on how womenwriters imagined themselves—in literary essays, periodical reviews, andeven works of fiction—as participants in complex networks of literaryexchange. Kimberly Stern proposes that in response to the “malecollectivity” prominently featured in critical writings, female criticsadopted a social and sociological understanding of the profession, oftenreimagining the professional networks and communities they were soeager to join.
This engaging study begins by looking at the eighteenth century, whencritical writing started to assume the institutional and generic structureswe associate with it today, and examines a series ... Read more
The Social Life of Criticism explores the cultural representation of thefemale critic in Victorian Britain, focusing especially on how womenwriters imagined themselves—in literary essays, periodical reviews, andeven works of fiction—as participants in complex networks of literaryexchange. Kimberly Stern proposes that in response to the “malecollectivity” prominently featured in critical writings, female criticsadopted a social and sociological understanding of the profession, oftenreimagining the professional networks and communities they were soeager to join.
This engaging study begins by looking at the eighteenth century, whencritical writing started to assume the institutional and generic structureswe associate with it today, and examines a series ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472130078
SKU
V9780472130078
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About Kimberly J. Stern
Kimberly J. Stern is Assistant Professor of English at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
Reviews for The Social Life of Criticism. Gender, Critical Writing, and the Politics of Belonging.
“This is destined to be an influential—even a foundational—study that will openup new and exciting vistas in the study ofpost-Enlightenment criticism and culturalcommunity.” - Stephen Behrendt, University ofNebraska–Lincoln