Women And Literature In Britain 1800 1900

Author : Joanne Shattock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521659574

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Women and Literature in Britain 1800-1900 by Joanne Shattock Pdf

These new essays by leading scholars explore nineteenth-century women's writing across a spectrum of genres. The book's focus is on women's role in and access to literary culture in the broadest sense, as consumers and interpreters as well as practitioners of that culture. Individual chapters consider women as journalists, editors, translators, scholars, actresses, playwrights, autobiographers, biographers, writers for children and religious writers as well as novelists and poets. A unique chronology offers a woman-centered perspective on literary and historical events and there is a guide to further reading.

Author : Vivien Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521586801

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Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800 by Vivien Jones Pdf

This book, first published in 2000, is an authoritative volume of new essays on women's writing and reading in the eighteenth century.

Author : Helen Wilcox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521467772

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Women and Literature in Britain, 1500-1700 by Helen Wilcox Pdf

First comprehensive introduction to women's role in, and access to, literary culture in early modern Britain.

Author : Merryn Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Irene Euphemia Smale
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031190285

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Women, Theology and Evangelical Children’s Literature, 1780-1900 by Irene Euphemia Smale Pdf

This book provides a wealth of fascinating information about many significant and lesser-known nineteenth-century Christian authors, mostly women, who were motivated to write material specifically for children’s spiritual edification because of their personal faith. It explores three prevalent theological and controversial doctrines of the period, namely Soteriology, Biblical Authority and Eschatology, in relation to children’s specifically engendered Christian literature. It traces the ecclesiastical networks and affiliations across the theological spectrum of Evangelical authors, publishers, theologians, clergy and scholars of the period. An unprecedented deluge of Evangelical literature was produced for millions of Sunday School children in the nineteenth century, resulting in one of its most prolific and profitable forms of publishing. It expanded into a vast industry whose magnitude, scope and scale is discussed throughout this book. Rather than dismissing Evangelical children’s literature as simplistic, formulaic, moral didacticism, this book argues that, in attempting to convert the mass reading public, nineteenth-century authors and publishers developed a complex, highly competitive genre of children’s literature to promote their particular theologies, faith and churchmanships, and to ultimately save the nation.

Author : Lucy Hartley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137584656

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1830-1880 by Lucy Hartley Pdf

This volume charts the rise of professional women writers across diverse fields of intellectual enquiry and through different modes of writing in the period immediately before and during the reign of Queen Victoria. It demonstrates how, between 1830 and 1880, the woman writer became an agent of cultural formation and contestation, appealing to and enabling the growth of female readership while issuing a challenge to the authority of male writers and critics. Of especial importance were changing definitions of marriage, family and nation, of class, and of morality as well as new conceptions of sexuality and gender, and of sympathy and sensation. The result is a richly textured account of a radical and complex process of feminization whereby formal innovations in the different modes of writing by women became central to the aesthetic, social, and political formation of British culture and society in the nineteenth century.

Author : J. Labbe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230297012

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1750-1830 by J. Labbe Pdf

This period witnessed the first full flowering of women's writing in Britain. This illuminating volume features leading scholars who draw upon the last 25 years of scholarship and textual recovery to demonstrate the literary and cultural significance of women in the period, discussing writers such as Austen, Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley.

Author : Rebecca Styler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317104537

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Literary Theology by Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century by Rebecca Styler Pdf

Examining popular fiction, life writing, poetry and political works, Rebecca Styler explores women's contributions to theology in the nineteenth century. Female writers, Styler argues, acted as amateur theologians by use of a range of literary genres. Through these, they questioned the Christian tradition relative to contemporary concerns about political ethics, gender identity, and personal meaning. Among Styler's subjects are novels by Emma Worboise; writers of collective biography, including Anna Jameson and Clara Balfour, who study Bible women in order to address contemporary concerns about 'The Woman Question'; poetry by Anne Bronte; and political writing by Harriet Martineau and Josephine Butler. As Styler considers the ways in which each writer negotiates the gender constraints and opportunities that are available to her religious setting and literary genre, she shows the varying degrees of frustration which these writers express with the inadequacy of received religion to meet their personal and ethical needs. All find resources within that tradition, and within their experience, to reconfigure Christianity in creative, and more earth-oriented ways.

Author : Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi,Patricia Zakreski
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Middle class women
ISBN : 3039111167

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What is a Woman to Do? by Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi,Patricia Zakreski Pdf

This anthology contributes to a scholarly understanding of the aesthetics and economics of female artistic labour in the Victorian period. It maps out the evolution of the Woman Question in a number of areas, including the status and suitability of artistic professions for women, their engagement with new forms of work and their changing relationship to the public sphere. The wealth of material gathered here - from autobiographies, conduct manuals, diaries, periodical articles, prefaces and travelogues - traces the extensive debate on women's art, feminism and economics from the 1830s to the 1890s. Combining for the first time nineteenth-century criticism on literature and the visual arts, performance and craftsmanship, the selected material reveals the different ideological positions surrounding the transition of women from idleness to serious occupation. The distinctive primary sources explore the impact of artistic labour upon perceptions of feminine sensibility and aesthetics, the conflicting views of women towards the pragmatics of their own creative labour as they encompassed vocations, trades and professions, and the complex relationship between paid labour and female fame and notoriety.

Author : Kathryn Gleadle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403937544

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British Women in the Nineteenth Century by Kathryn Gleadle Pdf

This highly original synthesis is a clear and stimulating assessment of nineteenth-century British women. It aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the key historiographical debates and issues, placing particular emphasis upon recent, revisionist research. The book highlights not merely the ideologies and economic circumstances which shaped women's lives, but highlights the sheer diversity of women's own experiences and identities. In so doing, it presents a positive but nuanced interpretation of women's roles within their own families and communities, as well as stressing women's enormous contribution to the making of contemporary British culture and society.

Author : Kay Boardman,Shirley Jones
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : M. O'Cinneide
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230583320

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Aristocratic Women and the Literary Nation, 1832-1867 by M. O'Cinneide Pdf

Aristocratic women flourished in the Victorian literary world, their combination of class privilege and gendered exclusion generating distinctively socialized modes of participation in cultural and political activity. Their writing offers an important trope through which to consider the nature of political, private and public spheres.

Author : K. Krueger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Linda H. Peterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107064843

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The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing by Linda H. Peterson Pdf

Innovative and comprehensive coverage of women writers' careers and literary achievements spanning many literary genres during the Victorian period.

Author : George Levine,Nancy Henry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107193345

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The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot by George Levine,Nancy Henry Pdf

This second edition, including some new chapters, provides an essential introduction to all aspects of George Eliot's life and writing. Accessible essays by some of the most distinguished scholars of Victorian literature provide lucid and often original insights into the work of one of the most important novelists of the nineteenth century.