Women's Emancipation Writing at the Fin de Siecle

Elena V. Shabliy is a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University.Dmitry Kurochkin is a Research Associate at Harvard University.Karen O’Donnell is the CODEC Research Fellow at Durham University.

• Introduction The New, but New with G*dElena V. ShabliyChapter 1 Women’s Labor Activism in the Progressive Era and Marie Van Vorst’s Amanda of the Mill as a Social Propaganda ToolEmine GecgilChapter 2"I have been wronged, and I long to right myself at once": Revenge, Deceit and Female Power in Louisa May Alcott’s Sensational Short FictionEvangelia KindingerChapter 3Who’s Afraid of Women Photographers? Redefining Gender, Gaze, and Photography in Amy Levy’s The Romance of a ShopMavis Chia-Chieh TsengChapter 4Rediscovering London in Ella Hepworth Dixon’s The Story of a Modern WomanSun Jai KimChapter 5The First "New Woman" in Modern Hebrew Literature: Finalia Adelberg in Love of The Righteous, or, The Persecuted Families by Sarah Feiga MeinkinMichal Fram CohenChapter 6Gendering the Empire: The Discourse on the New Woman and Emergence of Ottoman Feminism, 1860-1918Burcin CakirChapter 7Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda: A Feminist Life and its DiscourseLaureano CorcesChapter 8Harriet Beecher Stowe and Two Fin de Siècle Women WritersAfrin ZeenatChapter 9 Women’s Roles in Mass Literacy, Production, and Sensation in George Gissing’s New Grub StreetRobin M. Mako CitarellaConclusion