Colour'd Shadows

TERENCE ALLAN HOAGWOOD is Professor of English at Texas A & M University, USA.KATHRYN LEDBETTER is Assistant Professor of English at Texas State University, San Marcos, USA.

• List of Illustrations Introduction Scholarly Fantasy and Material Reality in Mary Robinson's Sappho and Phaon Ideology and Textuality in Herman's Records of Woman Commodifying the 'Calumniated Woman' in Fraser's 'The Very Roads of Literature': Women Editors of Nineteenth-Century British Literary Annuals Volumptuous Opportunities: Visual Images in the Keepsake 'The Fate of Woman at its Root': Elizabeth Barrett's A Drama of Exile and Jean Ingelow's A Story of Doom 'Varied Forms Pass Glitt'ring': Violet Fane's Denzil Place: A Story in Verse Notes Bibliography

"By examining a wide range of literary works and literary-related activities by women in nineteenth-century Britain, "Colour'd Shadows" shifts the focus of scholarship away from the authority of self representation in determining meaning and onto the site, the method, and the time of manufacture of literary works; in this way, Hoagwood and Ledbetter are able to show that what appears to be transparent in literature (i.e., meaning and content) is in fact part of an illusion created by the processes of commodity production. This study is sure to trouble and enliven literary criticism and open a path to new sorts of materialist literary inquiry." - Daniel P. Watkins, Duquesne University