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Educating women : cultural conflict and Victorian literature / Laura Morgan Green.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Green, Laura Morgan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English prose literature.
- Women--Education (Higher)--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Women.
- Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Feminism and literature.
- Women--Education (Higher).
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Feminist fiction, English--History and criticism.
- Feminist fiction, English.
- Women intellectuals--Great Britain--Biography.
- Women intellectuals.
- Women intellectuals in literature.
- Education in literature.
- Heroines in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 153 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Ohio University Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- In 1837, when Queen Victoria came to the throne, no institution of higher education in Britain was open to women. By the end of the century, a quiet revolution had occurred; women had penetrated even the venerable walls of Oxford and Cambridge universities and could earn degrees at the many new universities founded during Victoria's reign. During the same period, novelists increasingly put intellectually ambitious heroines - students, teachers, and frustrated scholars - at the centre of their books.
- Contents:
- 1 Domesticity and Duplicity: The Rhetoric of the Higher Education Movement 1
- 2 Living on the Moon: Jane Eyre and the Limits of Self-Education 24
- 3 From English Governess to Orientalist Scholar: Female Pedagogy and Power in Anna Leonowens's The English Governess at the Siamese Court 46
- 4 "At once narrow and promiscuous": Emily Davies, George Eliot, and Middlemarch 70
- 5 "Strange [in]difference of sex": Thomas Hardy and the Temptations of Androgyny 101.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-148) and index.
- ISBN:
- 082141402X
- 0821414038
- OCLC:
- 47054740
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