Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century: The Transatlantic Production of Fame and Gender

Abstract

Contents: Introduction: a right to call herself famous Reconstructing Charlotte: the making of a celebrated 'female genius' 'A sort of monster': Fanny Fern, fame's appetite and the construction of the multivalent famous female author 'Great genius breaks all bonds': Margaret Oliphant and the female literary greats Correcting the record, creating a new one: Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes and Eliza Potter's A Hair-dresser's Experience in High Life The text as child: gender/sex and metaphors of maternity at the fin de siAcle Conclusion: doing her level best to play the man's game: literary hermaphrodites and the exceptional woman Afterword: in search of the cult of Charlotte Works cited Index.

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