The Victorian Woman Question in Contemporary Feminist Fiction
Title | The Victorian Woman Question in Contemporary Feminist Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | J. King |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2005-06-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230503578 |
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.
Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question
Title | Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question PDF eBook |
Author | Nicola Diane Thompson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 1999-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521641020 |
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.
Women at Work in the Victorian Novel
Title | Women at Work in the Victorian Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Bronwyn Rivers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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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.
Steaming Into a Victorian Future
Title | Steaming Into a Victorian Future PDF eBook |
Author | Julie Anne Taddeo |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0810885867 |
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.
Love and the Woman Question in Victorian Literature
Title | Love and the Woman Question in Victorian Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Blake |
Publisher | Rl Innactive Titles |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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To love or to write? This was the crucial question facing the major women writers oft he last century. The painful struggle between sexual relations and personal fulfillment as creative artists is constantly portrayed and re-enacted in their fiction. This book provides the first close analysis of the central struggle in the lives and writings of Victorian women authors. It demonstrates the inadequacy of attitudes formed by twentieth century sexual libertation for an understanding of feminism in Victorian writing. This study establishes a double tendency in Victorian feminism to favor love but equally to oppose it from a position of 'radical chastity'. This essential book at once articulates crucial feminist issues and also constitutes a majr statement on the sources of female creativity. -- Publisher description
The Story of a Modern Woman
Title | The Story of a Modern Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Ella Hepworth Dixon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1895 |
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Women Writing the Neo-Victorian Novel
Title | Women Writing the Neo-Victorian Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Renk |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 2020-07-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3030482871 |
Women Writing the Neo-Victorian Novel: Erotic “Victorians” focuses on the work of British, Irish, and Commonwealth women writers such as A.S. Byatt, Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, Helen Humphreys, Margaret Atwood, and Ahdaf Soueif, among others, and their attempts to re-envision the erotic. Kathleen Renk argues that women writers of the neo-Victorian novel are far more philosophical in their approach to representing the erotic than male writers and draw more heavily on Victorian conventions that would proscribe the graphic depiction of sexual acts, thus leaving more to the reader’s imagination. This book addresses the following questions: Why are women writers drawn to the neo-Victorian genre and what does this reveal about the state of contemporary feminism? How do classical and contemporary forms of the erotic play into the ways in which women writers address the Victorian “woman question”? How exactly is the erotic used to underscore women’s creative potential?