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oapen-20.500.12657-620782024-03-27T14:14:44Z Greatness Engendered Booth, Alison Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers 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. 2023-03-29T15:49:59Z 2023-03-29T15:49:59Z 1992 book ONIX_20230329_9781501722790_64 9781501722790 9781501727771 9780801426285 9781501722806 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62078 eng Reading Women Writing application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781501722790.pdf 9781501722806.epub http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801426285/greatness-engendered Cornell University Press Cornell University Press 10.7298/33vt-yb21 10.7298/33vt-yb21 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 9781501722790 9781501727771 9780801426285 9781501722806 Cornell University Press 336 Ithaca [...] Open Book Program National Endowment for the Humanities NEH open access
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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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