 | Outside the Pale: Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, and the Victorian Woman Writer Subjects: Women authors English -- 19th century -- Social conditions; English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Autho; Elsie B. Michie here provides insightful readings of novels by Mary Shelley, Emily and Charlotte Bront, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot, writers who confronted definitions of femininity which denied them full participation in literary culture... Elsie B. Michie is Assistant Professor of English at Louisiana State University. A graduate of Brown University, she received her Ph.D. degree from Yale University. |
