The Narratives of Caroline Norton situates Norton in relation to Victorian discourses of gender, authorship, law, and politics and studies writings, including in texts by Wollstonecraft, Tennyson, and Thackeray, Trollope. The Narratives of Caroline...
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The Narratives of Caroline Norton situates Norton in relation to Victorian discourses of gender, authorship, law, and politics and studies writings, including in texts by Wollstonecraft, Tennyson, and Thackeray, Trollope. The Narratives of Caroline Norton situates Norton in relation to Victorian discourses of gender, authorship, law, and politics and studies writings, including in texts by Wollstonecraft, Tennyson, and Thackeray, Trollope
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-242) and index
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword: The Cassandra Dilemma; Abbreviations; Introduction: ""The Caudine Forks"" and the Optics of Authorship; Portraits of the Author I: The Woman Feminized, the Writer Domesticated; Portraits of the Author II: The Writer Etherealized, the Woman Masculinized; Caroline at the Crossways; Part I: Authorship; 1 "The World" and "The (Sm)all Great": Silver Fork Narratives; 2 "Strange Unstable World": Structure and Synthesis in the Final Narratives; Part II: Law; 3 "The Brethren of the Long Robe": Legal Satire and Courtroom Humor
4 "Ink Stands and Law Books": Domestic and Legal ViolencePart III: Politics; 5 "Half a Life": Narratives of Women and Politics; 6 "Lopsided and Left-Handed Laws": Narratives of Mothers and Wives; Afterword: "Such Is the Tale They Tell!": The Narratives of Caroline Norton; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z
