How Long to Read Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century

How Long Does it Take to Read Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 58 minutes to read Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century by Dr Brenda R Weber

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Focusing on representations of women's literary celebrity in nineteenth-century biographies, autobiographical accounts, periodicals, and fiction, Brenda R. Weber examines the transatlantic cultural politics of visibility in relation to gender, sex, and the body. Looking both at discursive patterns and specific Anglo-American texts that foreground the figure of the successful woman writer, Weber argues that authors such as Elizabeth Gaskell, Fanny Fern, Mary Cholmondeley, Margaret Oliphant, Elizabeth Robins, Eliza Potter, and Elizabeth Keckley helped create an intelligible category of the famous writer that used celebrity as a leveraging tool for altering perceptions about femininity and female identity. Doing so, Weber demonstrates, involved an intricate gender/sex negotiation that had ramifications for what it meant to be public, professional, intelligent, and extraordinary. Weber's persuasive account elucidates how Gaskell's biography of Charlotte Brontë served simultaneously to support claims for Brontë's genius and to diminish Brontë's body in compensation for the magnitude of those claims, thus serving as a touchstone for later representations of women's literary genius and celebrity. Fanny Fern, for example, adapts Gaskell's maneuvers on behalf of Charlotte Brontë to portray the weak woman's body becoming strong as it is made visible through and celebrated within the literary marketplace. Throughout her study, Weber analyzes the complex codes connected to transatlantic formations of gender/sex, the body, and literary celebrity as women authors proactively resisted an intense backlash against their own success.

How long is Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century?

Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century by Dr Brenda R Weber is 294 pages long, and a total of 74,676 words.

This makes it 99% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 48 minutes to read Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century aloud.

What Reading Level is Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century?

Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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