New woman fiction : women writing first-wave feminism / Ann Heilmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heilmann, Ann.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--Women authors.

Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Feminism and literature.

Great Britain.

History.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

Feminist fiction, English--History and criticism.

Feminist fiction, English.

Feminists in literature.

Feminism in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

xviii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills [England] : Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

The symbol of the shifting categories of gender and sexuality, the New Woman epitomized the spirit of the fin-de-siè cle. This monograph offers an interdisciplinary approach to the growing field of New Woman studies by exploring the relationship between the first-wave feminist literature, the 19th-century women's movement and female consumer culture. The book places the debate about femininity, feminism, and fiction in its cultural and socio-historical context exploring New Woman fiction as a genre, whose emerging theoretical discourse prefigured concepts central to second-wave feminist theory.

Contents:

Regen(d)eration

1. Contesting/Consuming Femininities

2. Keynotes and Discords

3. Marriage and Its Discontents

4. The Crisis of Gender and Sexuality

5. The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-213) and index.

ISBN:

0333794168

0312236271

OCLC:

44267972