The Victorian Woman Question In Contemporary Feminist Fiction

Author : J. King
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Nicola Diane Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Julie Anne Taddeo,Cynthia J. Miller
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810885868

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Steaming Into a Victorian Future by Julie Anne Taddeo,Cynthia J. Miller Pdf

This collection of essays explores the social and cultural aspects of steampunk, examining the various manifestations of this multi-faceted genre, in order to better understand the steampunk sub-culture and its effect on--and interrelationship with--popular culture and the wider society.

Author : Shirley Foster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136321801

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Victorian Women's Fiction by Shirley Foster Pdf

Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinised contemporary assumptions about their own sex, this book's critical interest in women’s fiction shows how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial ideologies and the often more attractive alternative of single or professional life. In arguing that the tensions and dualities of their work represent the honest confrontation of their own ambivalence rather than attempted conformity to convention, it calls for a fresh look at patterns of imaginative representation in Victorian women’s literature. Making extensive use of letters and non-fiction, this study relates the opinions expressed there to the themes and methods of the fictional narratives. The first chapter outlines the social and ideological framework within which the authors were writing; the subsequent five chapters deal with the individual novelists, Craik, Charlotte Bronté, Sewell, Gaskell, and Eliot, examining the works of each and also pointing to the similarities between them, thus suggesting a shared female ‘voice’. Dealing with minor writers as well as better-known figures, it opens up new areas of critical investigation, claiming not only that many nineteenth-century female novelists have been undeservedly neglected but also that the major ones are further illuminated by being considered alongside their less familiar contemporaries.

Author : Jeannette King
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783030941260

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Adventurous Women in Contemporary American Historical Fiction by Jeannette King Pdf

This book brings together for the first time nine groundbreaking historical novels by women from the United States, Canada and Latin America, united by their focus on female adventurers. These novels introduce the neglected women of history, real and imagined, who accompanied their menfolk to the New World, and enabled its settlement or colonisation. Familiar novelists include Isabel Allende, Audrey Thomas and Jane Smiley, but this book also introduces less familiar writers who have produced richly textured and densely historical novels. In addition to putting women back into history, these writers engage with the literature of the past, including the American canon of male fiction which dominated literary history before the intervention of feminist scholars. The book begins with an introduction to the history of historical fiction and provides a theoretical, historical and geographical context for the novels themselves.

Author : Bronwyn Rivers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114206902

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Women at Work in the Victorian Novel by Bronwyn Rivers Pdf

By examining the way that novels influenced and were influenced by the domestic ideology of womanhood, this book demonstrates how Victorian novels contributed to the imaginative and ideological changes of that important aspect of female emancipation, women's work.

Author : Sally Ledger
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0719040930

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The New Woman by Sally Ledger Pdf

By comparing fictional representations with "real" New Women in late-Victorian Britain, Sally Ledger makes a major contribution to an understanding of the "Woman Question" at the end of the century. Chapters on imperialism, socialism, sexual decadence, and metropolitan life situate the "revolting daughters" of the Victorian age in a broader cultural context than previous studies.

Author : Emma Liggins,Daniel D. Duffy
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015053114941

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Feminist Readings of Victorian Popular Texts by Emma Liggins,Daniel D. Duffy Pdf

The collection offers feminist reading on a range of popular genres, including ghost stories, working-class women's poetry, sensation fiction and stage melodrama in the context of discussions of the literary marketplace.

Author : L. Hadley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230317499

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Neo-Victorian Fiction and Historical Narrative by L. Hadley Pdf

Placing the popular genre of neo-Victorian fiction within the context of the contemporary cultural fascination with the Victorians, this book argues that these novels are distinguished by a commitment to historical specificity and understands them within their contemporary context and the context of Victorian historical and literary narratives.

Author : Mary Eagleton,Emma Parker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137294814

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1970-Present by Mary Eagleton,Emma Parker Pdf

This book maps the most active and vibrant period in the history of British women's writing. Examining changes and continuities in fiction, poetry, drama, and journalism, as well as women's engagement with a range of literary and popular genres, the essays in this volume highlight the range and diversity of women's writing since 1970.

Author : Aleksandra Tryniecka
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666905786

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Women’s Literary Portraits in the Victorian and Neo-Victorian Novel by Aleksandra Tryniecka Pdf

The book offers a study of Victorian and neo-Victorian women as portrayed on the pages of the selected nineteenth-century novels and modern, revisionary works. Immersed in the wide socio-cultural context of the Victorian era, the study binds Bakhtin's dialogical approach with Genette's intertextuality.

Author : Gail Cunningham
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015054104933

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The New Woman and the Victorian Novel by Gail Cunningham Pdf

Author : Ann Heilmann
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0415179432

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The Late-Victorian Marriage Question by Ann Heilmann Pdf

The late-Victorian debate on marriage, motherhood and women's rights reflects the impact the women's movement had on the formation and transformation of public opinion. This comprehensive anthology contextualizes key feminist texts and ideas.

Author : K. Cooper,E. Short
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137283382

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The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction by K. Cooper,E. Short Pdf

From The Other Boleyn Girl to Fingersmith , this collection explores the popularity of female-centred historical novels in recent years. It asks how these representations are influenced by contemporary gender politics, and whether they can be seen as part of a wider feminist project to recover women's history.

Author : Tim Dolin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351917209

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Mistress of the House by Tim Dolin Pdf

This exploration of gender and property ownership in eight important novels argues that property is a decisive undercurrent in narrative structures and modes, as well as an important gender signature in society and culture. Tim Dolin suggests that the formal development of nineteenth-century domestic fiction can only be understood in the context of changes in the theory and laws of property: indeed femininity and its representation cannot be considered separately from property relations and their reform. He presents original readings of novels in which a woman owns, acquires or loses property, focusing on exchanges between patriarchal cultural authority, the 'woman question' and narrative form, and on the place of domestic fiction in a culture in which property relations and gender relations are subject to radical review. Each chapter revolves around a representative text, but refers substantially to other material, both other novels and contemporary social, legal, political and feminist commentary.