Feminist readings of Victorian popular texts : divergent femininities / edited by Emma Liggins, Daniel Duffy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Liggins, Emma.

Duffy, Daniel (Daniel D.)

Series:

Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)

The nineteenth century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

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.

Popular literature--Great Britain--History and criticism.

Popular literature.

Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 175 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Brookfield, VT : Ashgate, [2001]

Contents:

Short Stories, Poetry and Periodicals

1 'The False Prudery of Public Taste': Scandalous Women and the Annuals, 1820-1850 / Harriet Devine Jump 1

2 'Too Boldly' for a Woman: Text, Identity and the Working-Class Woman Poet / Margaret Forsyth 18

3 Every Girl's Best Friend?: The Girl's Own Paper and its Readers / Hilary Skelding 35

Popular Fiction

4 Good Housekeeping? Domestic Economy and Suffering Wives in Mrs Henry Wood's Early Fiction / Emma Liggins 53

5 After Lady Audley: M.E. Braddon, the Actress and the Act of Writing in Hostages to Fortune / Kate Mattacks 69

6 See What a Big Wide Bed it is!: Mrs Henry Wood and the Philistine Imagination / Deborah Wynne 89

7 'Weird Fascination': The Response to Victorian Women's Ghost Stories / Clare Stewart 108

The Popular Stage

8 Feminist Discourse in Popular Drama of the Early- and Mid-Victorian Era / Daniel Duffy 126

9 Women's Playwriting and the Popular Theatre in the Late Victorian Era, 1870-1900 / Kate Newey 147.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [168]-171) and index.

ISBN:

0754602931

OCLC:

46777420