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Florence Marryat / Catherine Pope.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pope, Catherine, author.
- Series:
- Key popular women writers series ; volume 2.
- Key popular women writers series ; volume 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women and literature--England--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- Novelists.
- England.
- History.
- Novelists--19th century--Biography.
- English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- English fiction--Women authors.
- Marryat, Florence, 1833-1899.
- Marryat, Florence.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 202 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Brighton, England : Edward Everett Root, Publishers, Co.Ltd., 2020.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: "Questionable novels of the day": Women's Sensation Fiction
- A Victorian Feminist?
- ch. 1 A Notable Woman
- ch. 2 "Entirely Different Creations": Marriage and the Sexual Double Standard
- "Civilised Monogamy" versus "the Disruptive Vortex": The Politics of Victorian Marriage
- "Forever Defiled": The Wronged Wife in Victorian Fiction
- "Who made those laws?": Renegotiating the Marriage Contract
- "I've had enough of that sort of thing": Alternatives to Traditional Marriage
- Conclusion
- ch. 3 "An Entire Subversion of the Domestic Rule": Women and Property
- The Married Women's Property Acts in Fact and Fiction
- "That blessed Property Act": Marryat's Political Fiction
- "I don't like to see a woman do such unfeminine things": Women in Charge
- The Majesty of Work
- ch. 4 In Bluebeard's Chamber: The Conflation of Medical and Patriarchal Authority
- "the magnetic touch of his smooth palmed hands": The Doctor in Victorian Fiction
- "it must be difficult to breathe there": Nelly Brooke
- "You stand in the position of her father": Petronel
- "Poked and prodded, hypnotised, all-but-anatomised": Mesmerism and Sexual Propriety
- "A Bad Imitation of a Man": The Danger of Lady Doctors
- ch. 5 "Are you not a little prejudiced, dear Doctor?": The Pathologisation of Female Sexuality
- A "gorgeous throbbing style": For Ever and Ever
- "she is not a woman calculated to make a man happy": The Threat of the Racial `Other'
- "sbsurd fancies": The Masturbating Hysteric
- "Are you going to cut me up?" The Rise of Gynaecology
- Petronel
- The Strange Transfiguration of Hannah Stubbs
- ch. 6 "Our Mother Who Art in Heaven: The Virgin Mary and Sacred Maternity
- "He shall rule over thee": The Biblical basis for male authority
- The "Divine Mother" in My Own Child
- "A Bitter Penance": Neglected Spirituality in The Dead Man's Message
- ch. 7 "Courageous Assertions": Spiritualism and Power
- "Miss Marryat's Bogus Bogey"?
- "A scene of active frottage": Queerness in the Seance Room
- "It isn't all jam to have a medium in the house": The authoritative female voice in The Strange Transfiguration of Hannah Stubbs
- Vested Interests: Hyperfemininity and Homosexuality in Open! Sesame!
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Clyde de Loache Ryals Endowed Acquisition Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1911454633
- 9781911454632
- 1911454668
- 9781911454663
- OCLC:
- 1079868500
- Publisher Number:
- 99987276884
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