Victorian women's fiction : marriage, freedom and the individual / Shirley Foster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foster, Shirley, author.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature.

Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature

Victorian women's fiction : marriage, freedom and the individual ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

Women in literature.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

Psychological fiction, English--History and criticism.

Psychological fiction, English.

Social psychology in literature.

Marriage in literature.

Liberty in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinised contemporary assumptions about their own sex, this book's critical interest in women's fiction shows how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial ideologies and the often more attractive alternative of single or professional life. In arguing that the tensions and dualities of their work represent the honest confrontation of their own ambivalence rather than attempted conformity to convention, it calls for a fresh look at patterns of im

Contents:

Front Cover; New: Victorian Women's Fiction RLE; New: Copyright Page; Old: Victorian Women's Fiction RLE; Old: Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introductory: Women and Marriage in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England; 2. Dinah Mulock Craik: Ambivalent Romanticism; 3. Charlotte BrontХе: A Vision of Duality; 4. Elizabeth Sewell: The Triumph of Singleness; 5. Elizabeth Gaskell: The Wife's View; 6. George Eliot: Conservative Unorthodoxy; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

First published in 1985 by Croom Helm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

ISBN:

1-136-32180-2

1-283-58553-7

9786613897985

0-203-12053-1

1-136-32181-0

9780203120538

OCLC:

809313950