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In lively, forthright, and jargon-free language, Victorian Metafiction provides a more nuanced picture of Victorian women's fiction by tackling the long-standing critical tendency to read novels by women through the author's life, thereby underestimating a woman's imaginative power and artistic detachment. Charting the experimental and innovative techniques of these female novelists, Sparks shows how Victorian women writing metafiction moved literature significantly forward. --Juliette Atkinson, University College London, author of Victorian Biography Reconsidered: A Study of Nineteenth-Century 'Hidden' Lives

In lively, forthright, and jargon-free language, Victorian Metafiction provides a more nuanced picture of Victorian women's fiction by tackling the long-standing critical tendency to read novels by women through the author's life, thereby underestimating a woman's imaginative power and artistic detachment. Charting the experimental and innovative techniques of these female novelists, Sparks shows how Victorian women writing metafiction moved literature significantly forward. --Juliette Atkinson, University College London, author of Victorian Biography Reconsidered: A Study of Nineteenth-Century 'Hidden' Lives Despite its theoretically complex and abstruse subject, Victorian Metafiction is admirably clear and incisively argued. It also offers an important corrective to the widespread critical assumption that women's fiction only became truly self-aware and liberatory with the emergence of modernist writers like Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, and Jean Rhys. . . Victorian Metafiction compellingly traces the contours of an overlooked but significant transformation that was socially constitutive in its aesthetic innovation.--Victorian Studies

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Tabitha Sparks is Associate Professor of English at McGill University, the editor of several books, and the author of The Doctor in the Victorian Novel: Family Practices.

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