Challenging previous studies that claim anxiety and antagonism between transatlantic Victorian authors, Jennifer Cognard-Black uncovers a model of reciprocal influence among three of the most popular women writers of the era.
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Jennifer Cognard-Black
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List of Illustrations, List of Cited Collections, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter One: "You Are as Thoroughly Woman as You Are English": Strong Femininity and the Making of George Eliot, Chapter Two: "The Wild and Distracted Call for Proof": Harriet Beecher Stowe's Lady Byron Vindicated and the New Professionalism, Chapter Three: "A More Living Interest": George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and the Politics of American Reception, Chapter Four: "Proclaiming the Royal Lineage to the Average Mind": High-Art Aesthetics, the Novel, and Competing Femininities in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Story of Avis, Afterword, Notes, Bibliography, Index