British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 2
Title | British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne E. Gavin |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2020-08-26 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3030385280 |
This five-volume series, British Women’s Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840–1940, historicallycontextualizes and traces developments in women’s fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessingboth canonical and lesser-known British women’s writing decade by decade, it redefines the landscapeof women’s authorship across a century of dynamic social and cultural change. With each ofits volumes devoted to two decades, the series is wide in scope but historically sharply defined. Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s continues the series by historically and culturally contextualizing Victorianwomen’s writing distinctly within the 1860s and 1870s. Covering a range of fictional approaches,including short stories, religiously inflected novels, and comic writing the volume’s 16 original essaysconsider such developments as the sensation craze, the impact of new technologies, and the careeropportunities opening for women. Centrally, it reassesses key nineteenth-century female authors inthe context in which they first published while also recovering neglected women writers who helpedto shape the literary landscape of the 1860s and 1870s.
British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 3
Title | British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 3 PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne E. Gavin |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 328 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3031572882 |
British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 1
Title | British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne E. Gavin |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2018-07-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3319782266 |
This five-volume series, British Women’s Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, historically contextualizes and traces developments in women’s fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessing both canonical and lesser-known British women’s writing decade by decade, it redefines the landscape of women’s authorship across a century of dynamic social and cultural change. With each of its volumes devoted to two decades, the series is wide in scope but historically sharply defined. Volume 1: 1840s and 1850s inaugurates the series by historically and culturally contextualizing Victorian women’s writing distinctly within the 1840s and 1850s. Using a range of critical perspectives including political and literary history, feminist approaches, disability studies, and the history of reading, the volume’s 16 original essays consider such developments as the construction of a post-Romantic tradition, the politicization of the domestic sphere, and the development of crime and sensation writing. Centrally, it reassesses key mid-nineteenth-century female authors in the context in which they first published while also recovering neglected women writers who helped to shape the literary landscape of the 1840s and 1850s.
British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 3
Title | British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 3 PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne E. Gavin |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-08-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9783031572876 |
This five-volume series, British Women’s Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840–1940, historically contextualizes and traces developments in women’s fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessing both canonical and lesser-known British women’s writing decade by decade, it redefines the landscape of women’s authorship across a century of dynamic social and cultural change. With each of its volumes devoted to two decades, the series is wide in scope but historically sharply defined. Volume 3: 1880s and 1890s analyses confluences and developments in women’s writing across two fin-de-siècle decades. Its 16 original essays reconsider fiction by canonical and lesser-known women writers, redefining the landscape of female authorship during these decades. By exploring women’s fiction within the social and cultural contexts of the 1880s and 1890s, the collection distils in terms of women’s writing how these decades discretely build on earlier work that is identifiably Victorian. The last two decades of the century, in distinctive ways, witnessed literary experiment, reflection on the limits of realism, and a fruitful sense of confusion about what was ending and what was about to begin.
British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury
Title | British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne E. Gavin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |
The History of British Women's Writing, 1830-1880
Title | The History of British Women's Writing, 1830-1880 PDF eBook |
Author | Lucy Hartley |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 371 |
Release | 2018-09-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137584653 |
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.
A Literature of Their Own
Title | A Literature of Their Own PDF eBook |
Author | Elaine Showalter |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 2020-12-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0691221960 |
When first published in 1977, A Literature of Their Own quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new area for literary investigation, the book uncovered the long but neglected tradition of women writers in England. A classic of feminist criticism, its impact continues to be felt today. This revised and expanded edition contains a new introductory chapter surveying the book's reception and a new postscript chapter celebrating the legacy of feminism and feminist criticism in the efflorescence of contemporary British fiction by women.