The writings of Hesba Stretton : reclaiming the outcast / by Elaine Lomax.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lomax, Elaine, 1947-

Series:

Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present.

Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stretton, Hesba, 1832-1911--Criticism and interpretation.

Stretton, Hesba.

Women authors, English--19th century.

Women authors, English.

Children's literature--Authorship.

Children's literature.

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

Social reformers--Great Britain.

Social reformers.

Children in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Highly respected as a writer by her contemporaries, Hesba Stretton (1832-1911) was a vigorous campaigner for the rights of oppressed minorities and a founding member of the London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Mining nineteenth-century periodicals and archival materials, Elaine Lomax explores the intersection of cultural and literary representations of the child with wider images of the colonized or excluded, and advances our understanding of the development of juvenile literature and women's writing.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1 Private and Public Lives; Writing and Reading Worlds; 1 Personal Writings, Published Texts, Biographical Perspectives; 2 Publishers, Writers, Readers and Responses; Part 2 Roles, Representations and Social Relations; 3 The Child: Text, Context and Intertext; 4 'Worth her Weight in Gold': Subtexts of Sexuality; 5 Versions of Womanhood: Perspectives on Motherhood and Gender; 6 Outcast Society and Society's Outcasts; 7 Religion, Romance, Reform and Revolution: The Russian Connection; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-351-88021-7

1-351-88022-5

1-315-23649-4

1-282-05427-9

9786612054273

0-7546-9307-4

9781315236490

OCLC:

429316198