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Writing women of the fin de siecle Authors of change /

Concentrating on a period of significant social and political change and exploring both canonical and newly rediscovered texts, this book critically assess the changing culture of the late-Victorian period as represented by a range of women writers through a range of essays by leading academics in t...

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Group Author: Gavin, Adrienne E., 1962-; Oulton, Carolyn, 1972-
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Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Women and literature > History > 19th century > Great Britain.
Women authors, English > 19th century.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
English literature > History and criticism > 19th century.
Literature and society > History > 19th century > Great Britain.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers > English.
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 > English.
Literature.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230354265
Summary: Concentrating on a period of significant social and political change and exploring both canonical and newly rediscovered texts, this book critically assess the changing culture of the late-Victorian period as represented by a range of women writers through a range of essays by leading academics in the field and cutting-edge work by newer scholars.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230343429, 2011.
Carrier Form: 248 p.
ISBN: 9780230343429
9780230354265 :
0230354262 :
CLC: I561.064
Contents: Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Foreword-- L.H.Peterson 'She would Write!in Invisible Ink': An Introduction-- A.E.Gavin & C.W. de la L.Oulton PART I: POETICS AND AESTHETICS Re-Viewing Women Writers of the Fin de Siecle: Recent Critical Trends-- L.Pykett Sons of Fire and A Lost Eden: Expectations of Narrative and Protocols of Reading in Mary Braddon's Fin-de-Siecle Fiction-- G.Malcolm 'The Method of Life we all Lead': Olive Schreiner's Short Fiction as Challenge to the Stage Method-- S.Eggermont 'Let Your Life on Earth Be Life Indeed': Aestheticism and Secularism in Mathilde Blind's The Prophecy of St. Oran and 'On a Torso of Cupid'-- S.Lyons Editing Michael Field: Taking Fin-de-Siecle Women's Poetry to a Broader Audience-- M.Thain & A.P.Vadillo PART II: DOMESTICITY AND DEVIANCE 'I am Not by Nature Domestic': Mary Cholmondeley and the Politics of Home-- C.W. de la L.Oulton Having a Good Time Single?: The Bachelor Girl in 1890s New Woman Fiction-- E.Liggins Fin-de-Siecle Female Biographers and the Reconsideration of Popular Women Writers-- J.Atkinson 'I have Expiated my Sins to you at Last': Motherhood in Victoria Cross's Colonial Fiction-- M.Purdue 'C. L. Pirkis (not 'Miss')': Public Women, Private Lives, and the Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective-- A.E.Gavin III: GENDER AND THE BODY The Seventh Wave of Humanity: Hysteria and Moral Evolution in Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins-- N.Hetherington 'A Queer Sort of Interest': Vernon Lee's Homoerotic Allusion to John Singer Sargent and John Addington Symonds-- C.Maxwell Under the Hill: The 'Man Question' in the New Woman Novels of Marie Corelli, Jessie Fothergill, and Mary Linskill-- B.Ayres 'Your Loving is Unlike Any Other': Romance and the Disabled Body in the Gothic Fiction of Edith Nesbit and Lucas Malet-- K.A.Miller Athletic Bodies Narrated: New Women in Fin-de-Siecle Fiction-- T.J.R.Collins Index.

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