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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.
"...the essays in this book, contributed by a mix of established scholars and capable newcomers, are fresh, reflect sensitive reading, and are for the most part well written..." Victorian Periodicals Review "...[the book] is greater than the sum of its parts. This achievement stems from the editor's skill in conceiving and executing her subject...The collection's contributors have done a fine job of unmasking the cultural camouflage in which these writers may have disguised their concerns, and of celebrating the multivocality they achieved with one another and even within their own works." Victorian Studies
| Responding to the woman question: re-reading non-canonical Victorian women novelists | |
| Marriage and the anti-feminist woman novelist | |
| Breaking apart: the early Victorian divorce novel | |
| Phantasies of matriarchy in Victorian children's literature by non-canonical woman writers | |
| Gendered observations: Harriet Martineau and the woman question | |
| Maximising Oliphant: begging the question and the politics of satire | |
| 'Ploughing in all directions': literary women of the 1850s and Charlotte Mary Yonge's Dynevor Terrace | |
| Portraits of the artist as a young woman: representations of the female artist in the women's writing of the 1890s | |
| Lady in green with novel: the economics of painting in women's writing | |
| Ouida and the other new woman | |
| Organizing women: new woman writers, new woman readers, and suffrage feminism | |
| Shot out of the canon: Mary Ward and the claims of conflicting feminism | |
| Brave girls and strategic displacements: E. Nesbit and the woman question | |
| 'An 'old-fashioned' young woman': Marie Corelli and the new woman | |
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ISBN: 9781107404151
ISBN-10: 1107404150
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-century Literature & Culture
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 274
Published: 19th April 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.2
x 1.6
Weight (kg): 0.41
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