Greatness Engendered by Alison Booth PAPERBACK 9781501727771

Greatness Engendered\nby Alison Booth\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Alison Booth\nTitle: Greatness Engendered\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers\nPublisher: Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9781501727771\nISBN-10: 150172777X\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThe 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 achi.