Sisters in time : imagining gender in nineteenth-century British fiction / Susan Morgan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgan, Susan, 1943- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

Heroines in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Asking why the 19th-century British novel features heroines, and how and why it features ""feminine heroism,"" Susan Morgan traces the relationship between fictional depictions of gender and Victorian ideas of history and progress. Morgan approaches gender in selected 19th-century British novels as an imaginative category, accessible to authors and characters of either sex. Arguing that conventional definitions of heroism offer a fixed and history-denying perspective on life, the book traces a literary tradition that represents social progress as a process of feminization. The capacities for f

Contents:

Contents; 1. Imagining Gender in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction; 2. Why There's No Sex in Jane Austen's Fiction; 3. Old Heroes and a New Heroine in the Waverley Novels; 4. Gaskell's Daughters in Time; 5. Paradise Reconsidered: Eliot's Edens Without Eve; 6. ""Deeply a Woman, Dumbly a Poet"": Language as Betrayal in Meredith's Later Fiction; 7. The Feminine Heroic Tradition and Henry James; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-249).

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-280-52387-5

1-4237-3644-3

0-19-536330-2

1-60129-729-7

OCLC:

171570916