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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.
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Women and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Popular literature--Great Britain.
- Popular literature.
- Books and reading--Great Britain.
- Books and reading.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (339 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Ohio University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 Martin Hipsky scrutinizes some of the best-selling British fiction from the period 1885 to 1925, 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
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780821443774
- 0821443771
- OCLC:
- 767736203
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