“Having to Think in Inverted Commas”: Feminine Discourse and Foreign Words in Sarah Grand’s The Beth Book (1897)
The Beth Book is a feminist novel belonging to the genre of New Woman fiction, telling the Bildung of a woman of genius. Beth owes her talent for public speaking to her childhood days in Victorian Ireland, where she was sensitized to oral storytelling and to the politics of language. Beth feels estr...
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Presses universitaires de Rennes
2015-02-01
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/7668 |
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