Fallen Women In The Nineteenth Century Novel

Author : George Watt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317200802

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The Fallen Woman in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel by George Watt Pdf

A sympathetic view of the fallen women in Victorian England begins in the novel. First published in 1984, this book shows that the fallen woman in the nineteenth-century novel is, amongst other things, a direct response to the new society. Through the examination of Dickens, Gaskell, Collins, Moore, Trollope, Gissing and Hardy, it demonstrates that the fallen woman is the first in a long line of sympathetic creations which clash with many prevailing social attitudes, and especially with the supposedly accepted dichotomy of the ‘two women’. This book will be of interest to students of nineteenth-century literature and women in literature.

Author : Tom Winnifrith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:59971390

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Fallen Women in the Nineteenth-century Novel by Tom Winnifrith Pdf

Author : T. Winnifrith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230377721

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Fallen Women in the Nineteenth-Century Novel by T. Winnifrith Pdf

Tom Winnifrith examines how the great nineteenth-century novelists managed to say something new and important about sexual behaviour in spite of rules which dictated that the recording of this behaviour should combine the utmost discretion and deep disapproval. On the surface their fallen heroines seem to suffer the conventional cruel fate of the erring female: death or Australia or both. Tom Winnifrith examines ways in which the great novelists continued to portray the complexities underlying the simple division of women into angels and whores.

Author : Regina G. Kunzel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300065094

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Fallen Women, Problem Girls by Regina G. Kunzel Pdf

During the first half of the twentieth century, out-of-wedlock pregnancy came to be seen as one of the most urgent and compelling problems of the day. The effort to define its meaning fueled a struggle among three groups of women: evangelical reformers who regarded unmarried mothers as fallen sisters to be saved, a new generation of social workers who viewed them as problem girls to be treated, and unmarried mothers themselves. Drawing on previously unexamined case records from maternity homes, Regina Kunzel explores how women negotiated the crisis of single pregnancy and analyzes the different ways they understood and represented unmarried motherhood. Fallen Women, Problem Girls is a social and cultural history of out-of-wedlock pregnancy in the United States from 1890 to 1945. Kunzel analyzes how evangelical women drew on a long tradition of female benevolence to create maternity homes that would redeem and reclaim unmarried mothers. She shows how, by the 1910s, social workers struggling to achieve professional legitimacy tried to dissociate their own work from that earlier tradition, replacing the reform rhetoric of sisterhood with the scientific language of professionalism. By analyzing the important and unexplored transition from the conventions of nineteenth-century reform to the professional imperatives of twentieth-century social welfare, Kunzel offers a new interpretation of gender and professionalization. Kunzel places shifting constructions of out-of-wedlock pregnancy within a broad history of gender, sexuality, class, and race, and argues that the contests among evangelical women, social workers, and unmarried mothers distilled larger generational and cross-class conflicts among women in the first half of the twentieth century.

Author : Deborah Anna Logan
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826211755

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Fallenness in Victorian Women's Writing by Deborah Anna Logan Pdf

Logan's study is distinguished by its exclusive focus on women writers, including Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Florence Nightingale, Sarah Grand, and Mary Prince. Logan utilizes primary texts from these Victorian writers as well as contemporary critics such as Catherine Gallagher and Elaine Showalter to provide the background on social factors that contributed to the construction of fallen-woman discourse.

Author : Jennifer Hedgecock
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781604975185

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The Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature by Jennifer Hedgecock Pdf

"examines the changing social and economic status of women from the 1860s through the 1880s, and rejects the stereotypical mid-Victorian femme fatale portrayed by conservative ideologues critiquing popular fiction by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Honore de Balzac, and William Makepeace Thackeray. In these book reviews, the female protagonist is simply minimized to a dangerous woman. Refuting this one-dimensional characterization, this book argues that the femme fatale comes to represent the real-life struggles of the middle-class Victorian woman who overcomes major adversities such as poverty, abusive husbands, abandonment, single parenthood, limited job opportunities, the criminal underworld, and Victorian society's harsh invective against her." --publisher description.

Author : Amanda Anderson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501722677

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Tainted Souls and Painted Faces by Amanda Anderson Pdf

Prostitute, adulteress, unmarried woman who engages in sexual relations, victim of seduction—the Victorian "fallen woman" represents a complex array of stigmatized conditions. Amanda Anderson here reconsiders the familiar figure of the fallen woman within the context of mid-Victorian debates over the nature of selfhood, gender, and agency. In richly textured readings of works by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, among others, she argues that depictions of fallen women express profound cultural anxieties about the very possibility of self-control and traditional moral responsibility.

Author : Lyn Pykett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134944828

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The 'Improper' Feminine by Lyn Pykett Pdf

The women's sensation novel of the 1860s and the New Woman fiction of the 1890s were two major examples of a perceived feminine invasion of fiction which caused a critical furore in their day. Both genres, with their shocking, `fast' heroines, fired the popular imagination by putting female sexuality on the literary agenda and undermining the `proper feminine' ideal to which nineteenth-century women and fictional heroines were supposed to aspire. By exploring in impressive depth and breadth the material and discursive conditions in which these novels were produced, The `Improper' Feminine draws attention to key gendered interrelationships within the literary and wider cultures of the mid-Victorian and fin-de-diècle periods.

Author : Coventry Kersey D. Patmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590767712

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The Angel in the House by Coventry Kersey D. Patmore Pdf

Author : Kerry Powell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521795362

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The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre by Kerry Powell Pdf

This Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with an introduction surveying the theatre of the time, followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine performance, production, and theatre, including the music, the actors, stagecraft and the audience; plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender. Chapters also deal with comedy, farce, melodrama, and the economics of the theatre.

Author : Lesa Scholl,Emily Morris
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1753 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Norman Page
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1986-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349078103

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Hardy, Thomas, Annual by Norman Page Pdf

Author : Mrs. Rowson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PRNC:32101064071242

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Charlotte Temple by Mrs. Rowson Pdf

Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250030948

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Fallen Women by Sandra Dallas Pdf

From the ballrooms and mansions of Denver's newly wealthy, to the seamy life of desperate women, Fallen Women illuminates the darkest places of the human heart. It is the spring of 1885 and wealthy New York socialite Beret Osmundsen has been estranged from her younger sister, Lillie, for a year when she gets word from her aunt and uncle that Lillie has died suddenly in Denver. What they do not tell her is that Lillie had become a prostitute and was brutally murdered in the brothel where she had been living. When Beret discovers the sordid truth of Lillie's death, she makes her way to Denver, determined to find her sister's murderer. Detective Mick McCauley may not want her involved in the case, but Beret is determined, and the investigation soon takes her from the dangerous, seedy underworld of Denver's tenderloin to the highest levels of Denver society. Along the way, Beret not only learns the depths of Lillie's depravity, but also exposes the sinister side of Gilded Age ambition in the process. Sandra Dallas once again delivers a page-turner filled with mystery, intrigue, and the kind of intricate detail that truly transports you to another time and place.

Author : Nicky Losseff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317028062

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The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction by Nicky Losseff Pdf

The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction seeks to address fundamental questions about the function, meaning and understanding of music in nineteenth-century culture and society, as mediated through works of fiction. The eleven essays here, written by musicologists and literary scholars, range over a wide selection of works by both canonical writers such as Austen, Benson, Carlyle, Collins, Gaskell, Gissing, Eliot, Hardy, du Maurier and Wilde, and less-well-known figures such as Gertrude Hudson and Elizabeth Sara Sheppard. Each essay explores different strategies for interpreting the idea of music in the Victorian novel. Some focus on the degree to which scenes involving music illuminate what music meant to the writer and contemporary performers and listeners, and signify musical tastes of the time and the reception of particular composers. Other essays in the volume examine aspects of gender, race, sexuality and class that are illuminated by the deployment of music by the novelist. Together with its companion volume, The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry edited by Phyllis Weliver (Ashgate, 2005), this collection suggests a new network of methodologies for the continuing cultural and social investigation of nineteenth-century music as reflected in that period's literary output.