British women's writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury / Adrienne E. Gavin, Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gavin, Adrienne E., 1962- editor.

Oulton, Carolyn, 1972- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

English literature--Women authors.

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

Women and literature.

Great Britain.

History.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.

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

Literature and history.

Literature and history--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]-

Summary:

This five-volume series, British Women's Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, historically contextualizes and traces developments in women's fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessing both canonical and lesser-known British women's writing decade by decade, it redefines the landscape of women's authorship across a century of dynamic social and cultural change. With each of its volumes devoted to two decades, the series is wide in scope but historically sharply defined.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton

pt. I Women's Writing of the 1860s

2. A Decade of Experiment: George Eliot in the 1860s / Margaret Harris

3. `Duck him!': Private Feelings, Public Interests, and Ellen Wood's East Lynne / Tara MacDonald

4. `[Tr]ain[s] of circumstantial evidence': Railway `Monomania' and Investigations of Gender in Lady Audley's Secret / Andrew F. Humphries

5. `There is great need for forgiveness in this world': The Call for Reconciliation in Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers and A Dark Night's Work / Elizabeth Ludlow

6. `The plain duties which are set before me': Charity, Agency, and Women's Work in the 1860s / Kristine Moruzi

7. `[S]mothered under rose-leaves': Violent Sensation and the Location of the Feminine in Eliza Lynn Linton's Sowing the Wind / Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton

8. `[F]leshly inclinations': The Nature of Female Desire in Rhoda Broughton's Early Fiction / Tamar Heller

9. Crumbs from the Table: Matilda Betham-Edwards's Comic Writing in Punch / Nickianne Moody

pt. II Women's Writing of the 1870s

10. Transcending Prudence: Charlotte Riddell's `City Women' / Silvana Colella

11. `[M]ute orations, mute rhapsodies, mute discussions': Silence in George Eliot's Last Decade / Fionnuala Dillane

12. `His eyes commanded me to come to him': Desire and Mesmerism in Rhoda Broughton's `The Man with the Nose' / Melissa Purdue

13. `[E]mphatically un-literary and middle-class': Undressing Middle-Class Anxieties in Ellen Wood's Johnny Ludlow Stories / Alyson Hunt

14. `Sinecures which could be held by girls': Margaret Oliphant and Women's Labour / Danielle Charette

15. `More like a woman stuck into boy's clothes': Transcendent Femininity in Florence Marryat's Her Father's Name / Catherine Pope

16. `I am writing the life of a horse': Anna Sewell's Black Beauty in the 1870s / Adrienne E. Gavin

17. Forging a New Path: Fraud and White-Collar Crime in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's 1870s Fiction / Janine Hatter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783319782256

3319782258

9783030385279

3030385272

OCLC:

1199011556

Publisher Number:

99985420394