Narrative in the Professional Age : Transatlantic Readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and George Eliot (Hardcover)

1. Introduction 2. 'You are as Thoroughly Woman as you are English': Strong Femininity and the Making of George Eliot 3. 'The Wild and Distracted Call for Proof': Harriet Beecher Stowe's Lady Byron Vindicated and the New Professionalism 4. 'A More Living Interest': George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and the Politics of American Reception 5. 'Proclaiming the Royal Lineage to the Average Mind': high-Art Aesthetics, the Novel, and Competing Femininities in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' The Story of AvisAfterward