Gone girls, 1684-1901 : flights of feminist resistance in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novel / Nora Gilbert. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilbert, Nora, author.

Series:

Approaches to the novel.

Oxford scholarship online.

Approaches to the novel

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

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

Runaway women in literature.

Women in literature.

Feminism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

'Gone Girls, 1684-1901' examines how the persistent trope in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novels of female characters running away from home helped to shape both the novel form and modern feminism.

Contents:

Intro

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication page

Acknowledgments

Contents

Frontispiece

Introduction: Flight as Fight

1. The Rise of the Runaway-Woman Novelist

1.1 Aphra Behn

1.2 Delarivier Manley

1.3 Eliza Haywood

2. Running with Feeling

2.1 Samuel Richardson

2.2 Sarah Fielding

2.3 Charlotte Lennox

2.4 Sarah Scott

3. It Was a Dark and Stormy Flight

3.1 Ann Radcliffe

3.2 Mary Wollstonecraft

3.3 Frances Burney

4. The Ones Without the Manners

4.1 Jane Austen

4.2 Elizabeth Gaskell

4.3 William Makepeace Thackeray

4.4 Charles Dickens

5. Lilith on the Moors, Lilith on the Floss, Lilith on the Heath

5.1 The Brontës

5.2 George Eliot

5.3 Thomas Hardy

6. Fear of the Fast Young Lady

6.1 Ellen Wood

6.2 Mary Elizabeth Braddon

6.3 Wilkie Collins

7. The New Runaway-Woman Novelist

7.1 Mona Caird

7.2 Sarah Grand

7.3 George Egerton

Epilogue: Gone Girls in Hollywood

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 24, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Gilbert, Nora Gone Girls, 1684-1901

ISBN:

0-19-198792-1

0-19-887656-4

0-19-887655-6

OCLC:

1382694345