Fiction and ‘The Woman Question’ from 1850 to 1930
Title | Fiction and ‘The Woman Question’ from 1850 to 1930 PDF eBook |
Author | W. R. Owens |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2020-07-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1527555593 |
This book is about how ‘The Woman Question’ was represented in works of fiction published between 1850 and 1930. The essays here offer a wide-ranging and original approach to the ways in which literature shaped perceptions of the roles and position of women in society. Debates over ‘The Woman Question’ encompassed not only the struggle for voting rights, but gender equality more widely. The book reaches beyond the usual canonical texts to focus on writers who have, in the main, attracted relatively little critical attention in recent years: Stella Benson, Kate Chopin, Marie Corelli, Dinah Mulock Craik, Clemence Dane, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Gissing, Ouida, and William Hale White (who wrote under the pseudonym ‘Mark Rutherford’). These writers dealt imaginatively with issues such as marriage, motherhood, sexual desire, adultery and suffrage, and they represented female characters who, in varying degrees and with mixed success, sought to defy the social, sexual and political constraints placed upon them. The collection as a whole demonstrates how fiction could contribute in striking and memorable ways to debates over gender equality—debates which continue to have relevance in the twenty-first century.
Fiction and 'the Woman Question' from 1850 To 1930
Title | Fiction and 'the Woman Question' from 1850 To 1930 PDF eBook |
Author | W. R. Owens |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-04-22 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781527597082 |
This book is about how 'The Woman Question' was represented in works of fiction published between 1850 and 1930. The essays here offer a wide-ranging and original approach to the ways in which literature shaped perceptions of the roles and position of women in society. Debates over 'The Woman Question' encompassed not only the struggle for voting rights, but gender equality more widely. The book reaches beyond the usual canonical texts to focus on writers who have, in the main, attracted relatively little critical attention in recent years: Stella Benson, Kate Chopin, Marie Corelli, Dinah Mulock Craik, Clemence Dane, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Gissing, Ouida, and William Hale White (who wrote under the pseudonym 'Mark Rutherford'). These writers dealt imaginatively with issues such as marriage, motherhood, sexual desire, adultery and suffrage, and they represented female characters who, in varying degrees and with mixed success, sought to defy the social, sexual and political constraints placed upon them. The collection as a whole demonstrates how fiction could contribute in striking and memorable ways to debates over gender equality--debates which continue to have relevance in the twenty-first century.
Fiction and  ~the Woman Questionâ (Tm) from 1850 to 1930
Title | Fiction and  ~the Woman Questionâ (Tm) from 1850 to 1930 PDF eBook |
Author | Nicola Darwood |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2020-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781527550414 |
This book is about how â ~The Woman Questionâ (TM) was represented in works of fiction published between 1850 and 1930. The essays here offer a wide-ranging and original approach to the ways in which literature shaped perceptions of the roles and position of women in society. Debates over â ~The Woman Questionâ (TM) encompassed not only the struggle for voting rights, but gender equality more widely. The book reaches beyond the usual canonical texts to focus on writers who have, in the main, attracted relatively little critical attention in recent years: Stella Benson, Kate Chopin, Marie Corelli, Dinah Mulock Craik, Clemence Dane, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Gissing, Ouida, and William Hale White (who wrote under the pseudonym â ~Mark Rutherfordâ (TM)). These writers dealt imaginatively with issues such as marriage, motherhood, sexual desire, adultery and suffrage, and they represented female characters who, in varying degrees and with mixed success, sought to defy the social, sexual and political constraints placed upon them. The collection as a whole demonstrates how fiction could contribute in striking and memorable ways to debates over gender equalityâ "debates which continue to have relevance in the twenty-first century.
The Woman Question
Title | The Woman Question PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth K. Helsinger |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Feminism |
ISBN | 9780719009860 |
Novels of Everyday Life
Title | Novels of Everyday Life PDF eBook |
Author | Laurie Langbauer |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780801485015 |
Laurie Langbauer argues that our worldview is shaped not just by great public events but also by the most overlooked and familiar aspects of common life "the everyday." This sphere of the everyday has always been a crucial component of the novel, but has been ignored by many writers and critics and long associated with the writing of women. Focusing on the linked series of novels characteristic of later Victorian and early modern fiction such as Margaret Oliphant's Carlingford Chronicles or the Sherlock Holmes stories she investigates how authors make use of the everyday as a foundation to support their versions of realism.What happens when in the series novel, or in contemporary theory the everyday becomes a site of contestation and debate? Langbauer pursues this question through the novels of Margaret Oliphant, Charlotte Yonge, Anthony Trollope, and Arthur Conan Doyle and in the writings of Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, and John Galsworthy as they reflect on their Victorian predecessors. She also explores accounts of the everyday in the works of such theorists as Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, and Sigmund Freud, as well as materialist critics, including George Lukacs, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno. Her work shows how these writers link the series and the everyday in ways that reveal different approaches to comprehending the obscurity that makes up daily life."
British Women Writers and the Short Story, 1850-1930
Title | British Women Writers and the Short Story, 1850-1930 PDF eBook |
Author | K. Krueger |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2014-03-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137359242 |
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.
Odd women?
Title | Odd women? PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Liggins |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2016-05-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1526111640 |
This genealogy of the 'odd woman' compares representations of spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women’s fiction and auto/biography from the 1850s to the 1930s. Women outside heterosexual marriage in this period were seen as abnormal, superfluous, incomplete and threatening, yet were also hailed as ‘women of the future’. Before 1850 odd women were marginalised, minor characters in British women’s fiction, yet by the 1930s spinsters, lesbians and widows had become heroines. This book examines how women writers, including Charlotte Brontë, Elisabeth Gaskell, Ella Hepworth Dixon, May Sinclair, E. H. Young, Radclyffe Hall, Winifred Holtby and Virginia Woolf, challenged dominant perceptions of singleness and lesbianism in their novels, stories and autobiographies. Drawing on advice literature, medical texts and feminist polemic, it demonstrates how these narratives responded to contemporary political controversies around the vote, women’s work, sexual inversion and birth control, as well as examining the impact of the First World War.