Omschrijving
This book is concerned with the figure of the female performer in nineteenth-century fiction. It explores the attitudes of Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Emile Zola towards women’s appearances on political daises and theatrical stages.
Nodhar Hammami Ben Fradj is a Senior Lecturer in Literature at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Kairouan, Tunisia. She holds a PhD in English Language and Literature and specializes in American literature and feminist literary criticism. Her research interests are gender studies, nineteenth-century American literature, Victorian literature, African American literature, Anglo-American and French feminisms, cultural studies and critical theory.