Relative creatures : Victorian women in society and the novel / Françoise Basch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Basch, Françoise.

Contributor:

Rudolf, Anthony, 1942-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Femmes victoriennes. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

Women in literature.

Women--Great Britain--Social conditions.

Women.

Great Britain.

Social conditions.

Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Russel, Myra (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xx, 360 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

[First Schocken edition].

Other Title:

Victorian women in society and the novel

Place of Publication:

New York : Schocken Books, [1974]

Language Note:

Issued in French under title: Les femmes victoriennes.

Contents:

Wives and Mothers: Contemporary ideologies; The legal position; Daily life (Aristocratic and Middle-Class Women; The Working classes); The myth in the novel; The countervailing criticism

Single and Working Women: From the woman's sphere to the practice of a profession; Workshop, mine and factory; Charles Dickens's anti-woman; Revolt and duty in the Brontës; A more realistic portrayal by Elizabeth Gaskell, Trollope and Disraeli

Fallen Women: The great social evil; Dickens's sinners; Vanity Fair-The siren and the ladder; Seduction in Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot; Conclusion..

Notes:

"Translated by Anthony Rudolf."

"Jacket design by Edith Dreikurs."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-344) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has autograph of Myra Russel.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has underlines and marginal marks.

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0805235655

0805204687 :

OCLC:

1109883