Fiction And The Woman Question From 1850 To 1930

Author : W. R. Owens,Alexis Weedon,Nicola Darwood
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527555594

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Fiction and ‘The Woman Question’ from 1850 to 1930 by W. R. Owens,Alexis Weedon,Nicola Darwood Pdf

This book is about how ‘The Woman Question’ was represented in works of fiction published between 1850 and 1930. The essays here offer a wide-ranging and original approach to the ways in which literature shaped perceptions of the roles and position of women in society. Debates over ‘The Woman Question’ encompassed not only the struggle for voting rights, but gender equality more widely. The book reaches beyond the usual canonical texts to focus on writers who have, in the main, attracted relatively little critical attention in recent years: Stella Benson, Kate Chopin, Marie Corelli, Dinah Mulock Craik, Clemence Dane, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Gissing, Ouida, and William Hale White (who wrote under the pseudonym ‘Mark Rutherford’). These writers dealt imaginatively with issues such as marriage, motherhood, sexual desire, adultery and suffrage, and they represented female characters who, in varying degrees and with mixed success, sought to defy the social, sexual and political constraints placed upon them. The collection as a whole demonstrates how fiction could contribute in striking and memorable ways to debates over gender equality—debates which continue to have relevance in the twenty-first century.

Author : W. R. Owens,Alexis Weedon,Nicola Darwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527597083

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Fiction and 'the Woman Question' from 1850 To 1930 by W. R. Owens,Alexis Weedon,Nicola Darwood Pdf

This book is about how 'The Woman Question' was represented in works of fiction published between 1850 and 1930. The essays here offer a wide-ranging and original approach to the ways in which literature shaped perceptions of the roles and position of women in society. Debates over 'The Woman Question' encompassed not only the struggle for voting rights, but gender equality more widely. The book reaches beyond the usual canonical texts to focus on writers who have, in the main, attracted relatively little critical attention in recent years: Stella Benson, Kate Chopin, Marie Corelli, Dinah Mulock Craik, Clemence Dane, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Gissing, Ouida, and William Hale White (who wrote under the pseudonym 'Mark Rutherford'). These writers dealt imaginatively with issues such as marriage, motherhood, sexual desire, adultery and suffrage, and they represented female characters who, in varying degrees and with mixed success, sought to defy the social, sexual and political constraints placed upon them. The collection as a whole demonstrates how fiction could contribute in striking and memorable ways to debates over gender equality--debates which continue to have relevance in the twenty-first century.

Author : Nicola Darwood,W. R. Owens,Alexis Weedon
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527550419

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Fiction and  ~the Woman Questionâ (Tm) from 1850 to 1930 by Nicola Darwood,W. R. Owens,Alexis Weedon Pdf

This book is about how â ~The Woman Questionâ (TM) was represented in works of fiction published between 1850 and 1930. The essays here offer a wide-ranging and original approach to the ways in which literature shaped perceptions of the roles and position of women in society. Debates over â ~The Woman Questionâ (TM) encompassed not only the struggle for voting rights, but gender equality more widely. The book reaches beyond the usual canonical texts to focus on writers who have, in the main, attracted relatively little critical attention in recent years: Stella Benson, Kate Chopin, Marie Corelli, Dinah Mulock Craik, Clemence Dane, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Gissing, Ouida, and William Hale White (who wrote under the pseudonym â ~Mark Rutherfordâ (TM)). These writers dealt imaginatively with issues such as marriage, motherhood, sexual desire, adultery and suffrage, and they represented female characters who, in varying degrees and with mixed success, sought to defy the social, sexual and political constraints placed upon them. The collection as a whole demonstrates how fiction could contribute in striking and memorable ways to debates over gender equalityâ "debates which continue to have relevance in the twenty-first century.

Author : Louise Kane
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781000587883

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Re-Reading the Age of Innovation by Louise Kane Pdf

The period of 1830–1950 was an age of unprecedented innovation. From new inventions and scientific discoveries to reconsiderations of religion, gender, and the human mind, the innovations of this era are recorded in a wide range of literary texts. Rather than separating these texts into Victorian or modernist camps, this collection argues for a new framework that reveals how the concept of innovation generated forms of literary newness that drew novelists, poets, and other creative figures working across this period into dialogic networks of experiment. The 14 chapters in this volume explore how inventions like the rotary print press or hot air balloon and emergent debates about science, trade, and colonialism evolved new forms and genres. Through their examinations of a wide range of texts and writers—from well-known novelists like Conrad, Dickens, Hardy, and Woolf, to less canonical figures like Charlotte Mew, Elías Mar, and Walter Frances White—the chapters in this collection re-read these texts as part of an age of innovation characterized not by division and divide, but by collaboration and community.

Author : Stella Benson
Publisher : Boiler House Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781913861612

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Pull Devil, Pull Baker by Stella Benson Pdf

The oddest book you may ever read, both fantastic autobiography and ground-breaking autofiction Count Nicolas de Toulouse Lautrec de Savine was a hero in battle and a legendary lover in bed. A daring adventurer and a shameless swindler. A gambler ready to place the riskiest bets and a coward apt to flee his creditors in the middle of the night. Tsar of Bulgaria and a Chicago streetcar conductor. A racist, a chauvinist, and an Antisemite. Was he all of these--or none of them? This is the question Stella Benson struggled with as she tried to shape the Count's wild recollections into a coherent story. Which mattered more: the factual truth or the fictional truth? Her answer anticipates today's field of creative nonfiction ñ while telling a wild, funny, and unique tale.

Author : W. Parkins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230583115

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Mobility and Modernity in Women's Novels, 1850s-1930s by W. Parkins Pdf

Analyzing novels by women writers from the 1850s to the 1930s, this book argues that representations of mobility offer a fruitful way to explore the location of women within modernity and, specifically, the opportunities for (or limitations on) women's agency in this period, considering the mobility of the female subject in the city and beyond.

Author : Laurie Langbauer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501744570

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Novels of Everyday Life by Laurie Langbauer Pdf

Laurie Langbauer argues that our worldview is shaped not just by great public events but also by the most overlooked and familiar aspects of common life—"the everyday." This sphere of the everyday has always been a crucial component of the novel, but has been ignored by many writers and critics and long associated with the writing of women. Focusing on the linked series of novels characteristic of later Victorian and early modern fiction—such as Margaret Oliphant's Carlingford Chronicles or the Sherlock Holmes stories—she investigates how authors make use of the everyday as a foundation to support their versions of realism. What happens when—in the series novel, or in contemporary theory—the everyday becomes a site of contestation and debate? Langbauer pursues this question through the novels of Margaret Oliphant, Charlotte Yonge, Anthony Trollope, and Arthur Conan Doyle—and in the writings of Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, and John Galsworthy as they reflect on their Victorian predecessors. She also explores accounts of the everyday in the works of such theorists as Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, and Sigmund Freud, as well as materialist critics, including George Lukacs, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno. Her work shows how these writers link the series and the everyday in ways that reveal different approaches to comprehending the obscurity that makes up daily life.

Author : J. King
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230503571

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The Victorian Woman Question in Contemporary Feminist Fiction by J. King Pdf

The Victorian Woman Question in Contemporary Feminist Fiction explores the representation of Victorian womanhood in the work of some of today's most important British and North American novelists including A.S. Byatt, Sarah Waters, Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter and Toni Morrison. By analysing these novels in the context of the scientific, religious and literary discourses that shaped Victorian ideas about gender, it contributes to an important inter-disciplinary debate. For while showing the power of these discourses to shape women's roles, the novels also suggest how individual women might challenge that power through their own lives.

Author : K. Krueger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137359247

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British Women Writers and the Short Story, 1850-1930 by K. Krueger Pdf

This book addresses a critically neglected genre used by women writers from Gaskell to Woolf to complicate Victorian and modernist notions of gender and social space. Their innovative short stories ask Britons to reconsider where women could live, how they could be identified, and whether they could be contained.

Author : Elizabeth K. Helsinger,Robin Lauterbach Sheets,William Veeder
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Women
ISBN : 071900988X

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The Woman Question by Elizabeth K. Helsinger,Robin Lauterbach Sheets,William Veeder Pdf

Author : Christine Huguet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317128588

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George Gissing and the Woman Question by Christine Huguet Pdf

Approaching its subject both contextually and comparatively, George Gissing and the Woman Question reads Gissing's novels, short stories and personal writings as a crux in European fiction's formulations of gender and sexuality. The collection places Gissing alongside nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors as diverse as Paul Bourget, Ella Hepworth Dixon, May Sinclair and Theodore Dreiser, theorizing the ways in which late-Victorian sexual difference is challenged, explored and performed in Gissing's work. In addition to analyzing the major novels, essays make a case for Gissing as a significant short story writer and address Gissing's own life and afterlife in ways that avoid biographical mimetics. The contributors also place Gissing's work in relation to discourses of subjectivity and intersubjectivity, identity, public space, class and labour, especially literary production. Increasingly viewed as a key chronicler of the late Victorian period's various redefinitions of sexual difference, Gissing is here recognized as a sincere, uncompromising chronicler of social change.

Author : Kevin A. Morrison
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476648378

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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 : Laurie Langbauer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501723063

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Women and Romance by Laurie Langbauer Pdf

According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and George Meredith. She considers key issues in feminist debate, in particular the relations of feminist to the poststructuralist theories of Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault. In highlighting questions of gender in this way, Women and Romance contributes to a major debate between skeptical and materialist points of view among poststructuralist critics.

Author : Merryn Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1985-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349081844

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Women in the English Novel, 1800-1900 by Merryn Williams Pdf

Author : Pamela K. Stone,Lise Shapiro Sanders
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429676994

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Bodies and Lives in Victorian England by Pamela K. Stone,Lise Shapiro Sanders Pdf

This volume offers an overview of what it was like to be female and to live and die in Victorian England (c. 1837-1901), by situating this experience within the scientific and social contexts of the times. With a temporal focus on women’s life experience, the book moves from childhood and youth, through puberty and adolescence, to pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, into senescence. Drawing on osteological sources, medical discourses, and examples from the literature and cultural history of the period, alongside social and environmental data derived from ethnographic and archival investigations, the authors explore the experience of being female in the Victorian era for women across classes. In synthesizing current research on demographic statistics, maternal morbidity and mortality, and bioarchaeological evidence on patterns of aging and death, they analyze how changing social ideals, cultural and environmental variability, shifting economies, and evolving medical and scientific understanding about the body combined to shape female health and identity in the nineteenth century. Victorian women faced a variety of challenges, including changing attitudes regarding appropriate behavior, social roles, and beauty standards, while grappling with new understandings of the role played by gender and sexuality in shaping women’s lives from youth to old age. The book concludes by considering the relevance of how Victorian narratives of womanhood and the experience of being female have influenced perceptions of female health and cultural constructions of identity today.