Booth, Alison. Greatness Engendered. Cornell University Press, 1992.
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Gillian Beer
Standard Name: Beer, Gillian
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Julia Kristeva | First translated into English in Signs in autumn 1981, it was assigned to the final position (in Alice Jardine
's and Harry Blake
's version) in The Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and the Politics... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | George Eliot | In December 1870 she began writing Miss Brooke, a narrative which became part of Middlemarch as the history of its heroine. Not long after this she thought of combining this story of a daughter... |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | Alison Booth
has traced GE
's influence on Virginia Woolf
, and several critics have anointed Margaret Drabble
as her major successor among contemporary British writers. Blake, Kathleen. “George Eliot: The Critical Heritage”. The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot, edited by George Levine and George Levine, Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 202 - 25. 223 |
| Literary responses | Selima Hill | SH
says she relies on her unconscious for inspiration: It comes together by itself, if you trust it. Taylor, Debbie. “Deconstructing creativity”. Mslexia, pp. 9 - 13. 9 |
| Literary responses | Sylvia Townsend Warner | With five volumes of Warner's letters in print, Gillian Beer
called her one of the most wonderful letter-writers of the twentieth century in English. Harris, Laurel. “Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Letters to Genevieve Taggard”. PMLA, No. 1, pp. 205 - 20. 205 |
| Textual Features | George Eliot | While there can be no doubt that Dorothea is the heroine of Middlemarch, it is one of the book's major strengths to subsume even the most intensely particular individual life into collective life. The... |
| Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | Several critics have observed the influence of Joseph Conrad
in The Voyage Out: in Heart of Darkness (published in 1899) the voyage into the unknown represents a dark and unspeakable self-discovery. The structure of... |
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