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Lynette Felber (Ed.) - Clio´s Daughters: British Women Making History, 1790-1899 - 9781611493191 - V9781611493191
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Clio´s Daughters: British Women Making History, 1790-1899

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Description for Clio´s Daughters: British Women Making History, 1790-1899 Hardback. Editor(s): Felber, Lynette. Num Pages: 310 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 621.
Clio's Daughters exposes the reality behind the notion that nineteenth-century history was an exclusively male preserve. A fortuitous convergence of factors—including the popularization of history and the success of "lady novelists" in the literary marketplace—contributed to women's emergence as writers of history. The essays in this collection demonstrate that women were neither mere muses or passive consumers of history and histories. These underground historians may have been denied recognition as professional historians, but they appropriated historical subjects for fiction or disguised history in seemingly nonfictional genres. A major contribution to the study of British historical cultures, Clio's Daughters reveals the ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
Number of Pages
310
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611493191
SKU
V9781611493191
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Ref
99-1

About Lynette Felber (Ed.)
Lynette Felber is professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University.

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