The Wild Women as Social Insurgents
Title | The Wild Women as Social Insurgents PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Lynn Linton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 10 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | Women |
ISBN |
Bicycles, Bangs, and Bloomers
Title | Bicycles, Bangs, and Bloomers PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Marks |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2014-10-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 081315863X |
The so-called "New Woman"—that determined and free-wheeling figure in "rational" dress, demanding education, suffrage, and a career-was a frequent target for humorists in the popular press of the late nineteenth century. She invariably stood in contrast to the "womanly woman," a traditional figure bound to domestic concerns and a stereotype away from which many women were inexorably moving. Patricia Marks's book, based on a survey of satires and caricatures drawn from British and American periodicals of the 1880s and 1890s, places the popular view of the New Woman in the context of the age and explores the ways in which humor both reflected and shaped readers' perceptions of women's changing roles. Not all commentators of the period attacked the New Woman; even conservative satirists were more concerned with poverty, prostitution, and inadequate education than with defending so-called "femininity." Yet, as the influx of women into the economic mainstream changed social patterns, the popular press responded with humor ranging from the witty to the vituperative. Many of Marks's sources have never been reprinted and exist only in unindexed periodicals. Her book thus provides a valuable resource for those studying the rise of feminism and the influence of popular culture, as well as literary historians and critics seeking to place more formal genres within a cultural framework. Historians, sociologists, and others with an interest in Victorianism will find in it much to savor.
The Nineteenth Century
Title | The Nineteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1064 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Nineteenth Century and After
Title | The Nineteenth Century and After PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 552 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Sorceress of the Strand and Other Stories
Title | The Sorceress of the Strand and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | L.T. Meade |
Publisher | Broadview Press |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2016-02-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1554811481 |
In 1898, The Strand Magazine, one of the most influential publications of the Victorian fin de siècle, deemed best-selling author and editor L.T. Meade a literary “celebrity” and “one of the most industrious writers of modern fiction.” Beginning in 1893 and continuing into the first decade of the twentieth century, Meade’s medical mysteries and thrilling tales of dangerous criminal women appeared in The Strand. There they competed successfully not only with Arthur Conan Doyle’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, but also with the works of the most popular writers of the day. The Sorceress of the Strand is one of Meade’s most compelling mysteries, and the first to feature the seductive criminal genius Madame Sara. The Sorceress of the Strand is accompanied in this edition by three other popular stories featuring powerful female criminal protagonists, from gang leaders to spies and terrorists. The historical appendices expand on the stories’ themes of criminality, gender, and political activism. Twenty-eight of the original periodical illustrations are included.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Second Edition
Title | Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Second Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Hardy |
Publisher | Broadview Press |
Pages | 482 |
Release | 2007-02-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1770482512 |
This classic novel tells the story of how the poor rural couple John and Joan Durbeyfield become convinced that they are descended from the ancient family of d'Urbervilles. They encourage their innocent daughter Tess to cement a connection with the d'Urberville family, including their unprincipled son Alec, with tragic consequences. "A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented," as Hardy subtitled the novel, represented a direct challenge to conventional Victorian notions of sexuality and femininity. This is a revised, updated, and expanded Broadview edition that highlights a feminist interpretation of the novel in an extensive introduction. The range of historical appendices (including contemporary articles, letters, maps, news stories, and reviews) will greatly enhance a reader's understanding of the text.
The Rebel of the Family
Title | The Rebel of the Family PDF eBook |
Author | Eliza Lynn Linton |
Publisher | Broadview Press |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 2002-04-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1770482199 |
The Rebel of the Family (1880) is the first New Woman novel by Eliza Lynn Linton. Perdita Winstanley, the novel's protagonist, struggles to balance the competing demands of her snobbish, conservative mother and sisters, her radical friends in the women's rights movement, and an admirable but low-born chemist and his family. The Rebel of the Family also includes what is perhaps the first literary portrait of the late-Victorian lesbian community in London, featuring Bell Blount and her “little wife” Connie. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and appendices that help to set the work in its historical and literary contexts.