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Colour'd Shadows
Hoagwood, Terence; Ledbetter, Kathryn
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Description for Colour'd Shadows
Paperback. "Colour'd Shadows" interprets nineteenth-century British women writers' works in connection with the material contexts of writing, printing, and publishing, and the book illustrates methods of "reading" the material book for what it reveals about the meanings of the literary work that it embodies. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBF; HBJD1; HBL; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
This book studies the print culture of the nineteenth century as it shaped the meanings and the cultural significance of literary works by women writers - Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lady Blessington, Lady Morgan, Caroline Norton, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and others. Colour'd Shadows explains and interprets the physical forms of their books, the economics and politics of production and reception, and the cultural meanings of their literary work, showing how poems, literary annuals, engravings, commercial arrangements, the practices of women editors as well as writers, the politics of gender, the changing means of production, and women's literary ... Read more
This book studies the print culture of the nineteenth century as it shaped the meanings and the cultural significance of literary works by women writers - Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lady Blessington, Lady Morgan, Caroline Norton, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and others. Colour'd Shadows explains and interprets the physical forms of their books, the economics and politics of production and reception, and the cultural meanings of their literary work, showing how poems, literary annuals, engravings, commercial arrangements, the practices of women editors as well as writers, the politics of gender, the changing means of production, and women's literary ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349529483
SKU
V9781349529483
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About Hoagwood, Terence; Ledbetter, Kathryn
TERENCE ALLAN HOAGWOOD is Professor of English at Texas A & M University, USA. KATHRYN LEDBETTER is Assistant Professor of English at Texas State University, San Marcos, USA.
Reviews for Colour'd Shadows
"By examining a wide range of literary works and literary-related activities by women in nineteenth-century Britain, "Colour'd Shadows" shifts the focus of scholarship away from the authority of self representation in determining meaning and onto the site, the method, and the time of manufacture of literary works; in this way, Hoagwood and Ledbetter are able to show that what appears ... Read more