Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question

Herausgeber: Thompson, Nicola Diane

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781107404151
• ISBN-10: 1107404150
• Artikelnr.: 34959930

Inhaltsangabe

1. Responding to the woman question: re-reading non-canonical Victorian
women novelists Nicola Diane Thompson; 2. Marriage and the anti-feminist
woman novelist Valerie Sanders; 3. Breaking apart: the early Victorian
divorce novel Anne Humpherys; 4. Phantasies of matriarchy in Victorian
children's literature by non-canonical woman writers Alison Chapman; 5.
Gendered observations: Harriet Martineau and the woman question Alexis
Easley; 6. Maximising Oliphant: begging the question and the politics of
satire Monica F. Cohen; 7. 'Ploughing in all directions': literary women of
the 1850s and Charlotte Mary Yonge's Dynevor Terrace June Sturrock; 8.
Portraits of the artist as a young woman: representations of the female
artist in the women's writing of the 1890s Lyn Pykett; 9. Lady in green
with novel: the economics of painting in women's writing Dennis Denisoff;
10. Ouida and the other new woman Pamela K. Gilbert; 11. Organizing women:
new woman writers, new woman readers, and suffrage feminism Ann Ardis; 12.
Shot out of the canon: Mary Ward and the claims of conflicting feminism
Beth Sutton-Ramspeck; 13. Brave girls and strategic displacements: E.
Nesbit and the woman question Amelia A. Rutledge; 14. 'An 'old-fashioned'
young woman': Marie Corelli and the new woman Annette R. Federico.