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From: Yearbook of English Studies
Date: 19990101
Author:MAXWELL, CATHERINE
Lost Saints: Silence, Gender, and Victorian Literary Canonization. By TRICIA LOOTENS. (Victorian Literature and Culture Series) Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia. 1996.xi+243 pp. $35.
In her preface to Lost Saints, Tricia Lootens explains how 'what began as a reception study was transformed into a study of the formation of a literary legend' (p. 3). Starting her doctoral project with the intention of finding out how Elizabeth Barrett Browning came to be excluded from the canon, Lootens came to realize that 'the process of decanonization was much more ...
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