Greatness Engendered
George Eliot and Virginia Woolf
Abstract
The egotism that fuels the desire for greatness has been associated exclusively with men, according to one feminist view; yet many women cannot suppress the need to strive for greatness. In this forceful and compelling book, Alison Booth traces through the novels, essays, and other writings of George Eliot and Virginia Woolf radically conflicting attitudes on the part of each toward the possibility of feminine greatness. Examining the achievements of Eliot and Woolf in their social contexts, she provides a challenging model of feminist historical criticism.
Keywords
Literature: history and criticismDOI
10.7298/33vt-yb21ISBN
9781501722790, 9781501727771, 9780801426285, 9781501722806, 9781501722790, 9781501722806Publisher
Cornell University PressPublisher website
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/Publication date and place
Ithaca, 1992Imprint
Cornell University PressSeries
Reading Women Writing,Classification
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers