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Modernism and the women's popular romance in Britain, 1885-1925 / Martin Hipsky.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hipsky, Martin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- English fiction--Women authors.
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Popular literature.
- Great Britain.
- Women and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- History.
- Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Popular literature--Great Britain.
- Books and reading--Great Britain.
- Books and reading.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Ohio University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Today's mass-market romances have their precursors in late Victorian popular novels written by and for women. In Modernism and the Women's Popular Romance in Britain, 1885-1925, Martin Hipsky scrutinizes some of the best-selling British fiction from the era when romances, especially those by British women, were sold and read more widely than ever before or since.
- Recent scholarship has explored the desires and anxieties addressed by both "low modern" and "high modernist" British culture in the decades straddling the turn of the twentieth century. In keeping with these new studies, Hipsky offers a nuanced portrait of an important phenomenon in the history of modern fiction. He puts popular romances by Mrs. Humphry Ward, Marie Corelli, the Baroness Orczy, Florence Barclay, Elinor Glyn, Victoria Cross, Ethel Dell, and E. M. Hull into direct relationship with the fiction of Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Rebecca West, James Joyce, and D. H. Lawrence, among other modernist greats. The result is a new scholarly map of popular romance, modernism, and the complex relationship between the two. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Contexts of popular romance, 1885-1925
- Mary Ward's romances and the literary field
- Marie Corelli and the discourse of romance
- The women's romance and the ideology of form
- The imperial erotic romance
- Modernism and the romance of interiority.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780821419700
- 0821419706
- 9780821443774
- 0821443771
- OCLC:
- 720024520
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