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Explores the cultural representation of the female critic in Victorian Britain, focusing especially on how women writers imagined themselves - in literary essays, periodical reviews, and even works of fiction - as participants in complex networks of literary exchange. Kimberly Stern proposes that female critics adopted a social and sociological understanding of the profession.

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The Social Life of Criticism

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      Publisher The University of Michigan Press
      Published 10/30/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780472130078
      978-0472130078
      ISBN-10 0472130072
      Also in:
      Literary studies: general Gender studies: women and girls Social theory

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      Book Synopsis
      Explores the cultural representation of the female critic in Victorian Britain, focusing especially on how women writers imagined themselves - in literary essays, periodical reviews, and even works of fiction - as participants in complex networks of literary exchange. Kimberly Stern proposes that female critics adopted a social and sociological understanding of the profession.

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      “This is destined to be an influential—even a foundational—study that will openup new and exciting vistas in the study ofpost-Enlightenment criticism and culturalcommunity.” - Stephen Behrendt, University ofNebraska–Lincoln

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