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Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf

Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf

Paperback

Series: Reading Women Writing

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 150172777X
ISBN13: 9781501727771
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Aug 15 2018
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The egotism that fuels the desire for greatness has been associated exclusively with men, according to one feminist view; yet many women cannot suppress the need to strive for greatness. In this forceful and compelling book, Alison Booth traces through the novels, essays, and other writings of George Eliot and Virginia Woolf radically conflicting attitudes on the part of each toward the possibility of feminine greatness. Examining the achievements of Eliot and Woolf in their social contexts, she provides a challenging model of feminist historical criticism.

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