Readers and mistresses : kept women in Victorian literature / Katie R. Peel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peel, Katie R., author.

Series:

Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century Series

Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Mistresses in literature.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 218 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Kept women in Victorian literature

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Part recovery and part new reading method, this work locates the few kept mistresses in Victorian literature, while offering a queer way to read for their existences when less legible. This book offers a way to read old material with new eyes and a social justice ethic.

Contents:

Introduction: "I am my own mistress": Kept women in Victorian literature

Old, particular, fallen, mustachioed, and queer: Other kept women

The women who did (and the men who did not)

Wives and mistresses in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Marian Evans' story: The kept woman in Daniel Deronda

Near mis(tres)ses: Narrative potential v. dead ends

Conclusion: "Conventionality is not morality."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781526176462

1526176467

9781526176486

1526176483

OCLC:

1456980670