A Popular Encyclopaedia Of Victorian Women Writers

Author : Lesa Scholl,Emily Morris
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1753 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030783181

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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing by Lesa Scholl,Emily Morris Pdf

Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding of the importance of interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, there is a need to extend this campaign beyond literary studies in order to recognise the role of women writers across the nineteenth century, a time that was intrinsically interdisciplinary in approach to scholarly writing and public intellectual engagement.

Author : Russell James
Publisher : Prospero Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1738408302

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A Popular Encyclopaedia of Victorian Women Writers by Russell James Pdf

A compendious illustrated guide to those industrious but often overlooked women writers of the Victorian era: the famous, the forgotten and the forlorn. More than 1,500 women authors, along with over 400 pseudonyms, 400 quotes and extracts, and a further 40 subject entries and essays. Not just the familiar names - though they're all there - but literally hundreds of minor and middle-ranking authors, along with the magazines they were serialized in, the trends, the publishers, and the disadvantages and problems women writers faced in what was assumed to be a man's world. You'll find entries on The Bigamy Novel, Children's Literature, Domestic Fiction, Feminism First Faltering Footsteps, Ghost Stories, Governess Stories, Literary Style, Living in a Man's World, Morality and Religion, The New Woman, Romance, Sensation Novels, Silly and Silver Fork Novels, Social Conditions and Reform, The Three-Decker novel, Tracts and Tract Societies, Travellers and Explorers, 'Womanly Fiction', 'Woman's Place' - and more. This is a popular encyclopaedia, not an academic text. It's a book to read and enjoy, to dip into and consult for reference, and it's very readable. Not only is it written in easy-to-read prose but (almost uniquely) it is packed with extracts from Victorian women's writing - paragraphs, short scenes, verses - to bring these authors back to life.

Author : Kay Boardman,Shirley Jones
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0719064503

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Popular Victorian Women Writers by Kay Boardman,Shirley Jones Pdf

Popular Victorian women writers considers a diverse group of women writers within the Victorian literary marketplace. It looks at authors such as Ellen Wood, Mary Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and Charlotte Yonge as well as less well-known writers including Jessie Fothergill and Eliza Meteyard.Each essay sets the individual author within her biographical and literary context and provides refreshing insights into their work. Together they bring the work of largely unknown authors and new perspectives on known authors to critical and public attention.Accessible and informative, the book is ideal for students of Victorian literature and culture as well as tutors and scholars of the period.

Author : Nicola Diane Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521641029

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Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question by Nicola Diane Thompson Pdf

This book was first published in 1999. This collection of essays by leading scholars from Britain, the USA and Canada opens up the limited landscape of Victorian novels by focusing attention on some of the women writers popular in their own time but forgotten or neglected by literary history. Spanning the entire Victorian period, this study investigates particularly the role and treatment of 'the woman question' in the second half of the century. There are discussions of marriage, matriarchy and divorce, satire, suffragette writing, writing for children, and links between literature and art. Moving from Margaret Oliphant and Charlotte Mary Yonge to Mary Ward, Marie Corelli, 'Ouida' and E. Nesbit, this book illuminates the complex cultural and literary roles, and the engaging contributions, of Victorian women writers.

Author : June Schlueter,Paul Schlueter
Publisher : Garland Science
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0815319452

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Encyclopedia of British Women Writers by June Schlueter,Paul Schlueter Pdf

Author : Ashlie Sponenberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230379473

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Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing 1900–1950 by Ashlie Sponenberg Pdf

This study provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging resource which includes information on many previously neglected British women writers (novelists, poets, dramatists, autobiographers) and topics. It provides contextualizing material, with concise introductions to related topics, including organizations, movements, genres and publications.

Author : Vanessa D. Dickerson
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0826210813

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Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide by Vanessa D. Dickerson Pdf

An interesting rereading of familiar texts by Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot recovering the historical and literary roots of the supernatural as it appears in each women's work. Dickerson (English, Rhodes College) makes interesting observations about women's changing roles in the 19th century when scientific advancements relegated women to the home as arbiters of the spiritual while men occupied themselves with "rational" invention. Through close readings, she demonstrates how the Brontes, Gaskell, and Eliot resisted this division and, simultaneously, created a spiritual genre of writing traditionally denigrated by critics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Katharina M. Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:632437894

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An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers by Katharina M. Wilson Pdf

Author : Christine L. Krueger
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438108704

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Encyclopedia of British Writers by Christine L. Krueger Pdf

This concise encyclopedic reference profiles more than 800 British poets

Author : Kevin A. Morrison
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476683997

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Encyclopedia of London's East End by Kevin A. Morrison Pdf

The East End is an iconic area of London, from the transient street art of Banksy and Pablo Delgado to the exhibitions of Doreen Fletcher and Gilbert and George. Located east of the Tower of London and north of the River Thames, it has experienced a number of developmental stages in its four-hundred-year history. Originating as a series of scattered villages, the area has been home to Europe's worst slums and served as an affluent nodal point of the British Empire. Through its evolution, the East End has been the birthplace of radical political and social movements and the social center for a variety of diasporic communities. This reference work, with its alphabetically organized cross-referenced entries and its original and historical photography, serves as a comprehensive guide to the social and cultural history of this global hub.

Author : Anne-Marie Beller,Tara MacDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317754015

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Rediscovering Victorian Women Sensation Writers by Anne-Marie Beller,Tara MacDonald Pdf

Scholarly understanding of the Victorian literary field has changed dramatically in the past thirty years, due in large part to the extensive recovery of sensation fiction and a corresponding recognition of that genre’s importance in the literary debates, trends, and wider cultural practices of the period. Yet until very recently, work on sensationalism has focused on a narrow range of authors and works, with Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Ellen Wood retaining the preponderance of critical attention. This collection examines the fiction of ten women sensation writers who were immensely popular in the Victorian period but remain critically neglected today – writers such as Annie Edwardes, M.C. Houstoun, Annie French, Dora Russell and others. The Victorian sensation novel was categorically associated with women by Victorian reviewers and this collection extends our current understanding of this sub-genre by showing that female sensation writers were often sophisticated in their textual strategies, employing a range of metafictional techniques and narrative innovations. By moving beyond the novelists who have come to represent the genre, this book presents a fuller, more nuanced, understanding of the spectrum of writing that constructed the concept of ‘sensationalism’ for Victorian readers and critics. The book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s Writing.

Author : María Claudia André,Eva Paulino Bueno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1653 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317726340

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Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia by María Claudia André,Eva Paulino Bueno Pdf

Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia presents the lives and critical works of over 170 women writers in Latin America between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. This features thematic entries as well as biographies of female writers whose works were originally published in Spanish or Portuguese, and who have had an impact on literary, political, and social studies. Focusing on drama, poetry, and fiction, this work includes authors who have published at least three literary texts that have had a significant impact on Latin American literature and culture. Each entry is followed by extensive bibliographic references, including primary and secondary sources. Coverage consists of critical appreciation and analysis of the writers' works. Brief biographical data is included, but the main focus is on the meanings and contexts of the works as well as their cultural and political impact. In addition to author entries, other themes are explored, such as humor in contemporary Latin American fiction, lesbian literature in Latin America, magic, realism, or mother images in Latin American literature. The aim is to provide a unique, thorough, scholarly survey of women writers and their works in Latin America. This Encyclopedia will be of interest to both to the student of literature as well as to any reader interested in understanding more about Latin American culture, literature, and how women have represented gender and national issues throughout the centuries.

Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1141 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136787447

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Encyclopedia of Life Writing by Margaretta Jolly Pdf

This is the first substantial reference work in English on the various forms that constitute "life writing." As this term suggests, the Encyclopedia explores not only autobiography and biography proper, but also letters, diaries, memoirs, family histories, case histories, and other ways in which individual lives have been recorded and structured. It includes entries on genres and subgenres, national and regional traditions from around the world, and important auto-biographical writers, as well as articles on related areas such as oral history, anthropology, testimonies, and the representation of life stories in non-verbal art forms.

Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2648 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780195169218

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature by David Scott Kastan Pdf

A comprehensive reference presents over five hundred full essays on authors and a variety of topics, including censorship, genre, patronage, and dictionaries.

Author : Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135221294

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Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory by Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace Pdf

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.