Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question
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- Editor: Nicola Diane Thompson, Kingston University, London
- Date Published: April 2012
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107404151
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This collection of essays focuses attention on a number of Victorian women writers popular in their own time but forgotten or neglected by literary history, from Margaret Oliphant and Charlotte Yonge to Mary Ward, Marie Corelli, "Ouida" and E. Nesbit. Particular emphasis is given to writings concerned with "the woman question." Discussions of marriage, matriarchy and divorce, satire, suffragette writing, writing for children, and links between literature and art illuminate the complex cultural and literary roles, and the engaging contributions, of Victorian women writers.
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"...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
See more reviews"...[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
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- Date Published: April 2012
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107404151
- length: 274 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.41kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Responding to the woman question: re-reading non-canonical Victorian women novelists Nicola Diane Thompson
2. Marriage and the anti-feminist woman novelist Valerie Sanders
3. Breaking apart: the early Victorian divorce novel Anne Humpherys
4. Phantasies of matriarchy in Victorian children's literature by non-canonical woman writers Alison Chapman
5. Gendered observations: Harriet Martineau and the woman question Alexis Easley
6. Maximising Oliphant: begging the question and the politics of satire Monica F. Cohen
7. 'Ploughing in all directions': literary women of the 1850s and Charlotte Mary Yonge's Dynevor Terrace June Sturrock
8. Portraits of the artist as a young woman: representations of the female artist in the women's writing of the 1890s Lyn Pykett
9. Lady in green with novel: the economics of painting in women's writing Dennis Denisoff
10. Ouida and the other new woman Pamela K. Gilbert
11. Organizing women: new woman writers, new woman readers, and suffrage feminism Ann Ardis
12. Shot out of the canon: Mary Ward and the claims of conflicting feminism Beth Sutton-Ramspeck
13. Brave girls and strategic displacements: E. Nesbit and the woman question Amelia A. Rutledge
14. 'An 'old-fashioned' young woman': Marie Corelli and the new woman Annette R. Federico.
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