Women at odds : indifference, antagonism, and progress in late Victorian literature / Riya Das.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Das, Riya, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eliot, George, 1819-1880--Criticism and interpretation.

Eliot, George.

Gissing, George, 1857-1903--Criticism and interpretation.

Gissing, George.

Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920--Criticism and interpretation.

Schreiner, Olive.

Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912--Criticism and interpretation.

Stoker, Bram.

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

English fiction.

Women in literature--History--19th century.

Women in literature.

Feminism in literature--History--19th century.

Feminism in literature.

Women--Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.

Women.

Physical Description:

ix, 199 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"A literary study of the limitations of female solidarity for the New Woman in Victorian society. Uses examples from George Eliot, George Gissing, Olive Schreiner, and Bram Stoker to argue that the fin de siècle New Woman fashions social progress for herself through indifference and antagonism toward femininities she excludes as 'other'."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Wives and daughters leaving home : indifferent and antagonistic new women

An unsympathetic network : female defiance as narrative force in Daniel Deronda

Antagonistic boundaries : the woman professional's retro-progress in The odd women

Settler colonial feminism : unsustainable indifference and antagonism in The story of an African farm

In solidarity with empire : the professional wife and mother in Dracula

Conclusion: Antagonism and indifference : twenty-first-century affordances.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-191) and index.

ISBN:

9780814215722

0814215726

OCLC:

1430499185