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Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question

Part of Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Nicola Diane Thompson, Valerie Sanders, Anne Humpherys, Alison Chapman, Alexis Easley, Monica F. Cohen, June Sturrock, Lyn Pykett, Dennis Denisoff, Pamela K. Gilbert, Ann Ardis, Beth Sutton-Ramspeck, Amelia A. Rutledge, Annette R. Federico
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  • Date Published: April 2012
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781107404151

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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.

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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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    Nicola Diane Thompson, Kingston University, London

    Contributors

    Nicola Diane Thompson, Valerie Sanders, Anne Humpherys, Alison Chapman, Alexis Easley, Monica F. Cohen, June Sturrock, Lyn Pykett, Dennis Denisoff, Pamela K. Gilbert, Ann Ardis, Beth Sutton-Ramspeck, Amelia A. Rutledge, Annette R. Federico

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