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Didactic Novels and British Women's Writing, 1790-1820
Häftad, 2019
879 kr
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Tracing the rise of conduct literature and the didactic novel over the course of the eighteenth century, this book explores how British women used the didactic novel genre to engage in political debate during and immediately after the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Although didactic …
New Man, Masculinity and Marriage in the Victorian Novel
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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By tracing the rise of the New Man alongside novelistic changes in the representations of marriage, MacDonald shows how this figure encouraged Victorian writers to reassess masculine behaviour and to re-imagine the marriage plot in light of wider social changes. She finds examples in novels by …
Rose Macaulay, Gender, and Modernity
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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This book is the first collection on the British author Rose Macaulay (1881-1958). The essays establish connections in her work between modernism and the middlebrow, show Macaulay’s attentiveness to reformulating contemporary depictions of gender in her fiction, and explore how her writing …
Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand
Häftad, 2024
726 kr
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Colonial domestic literature has been largely overlooked and is due for a reassessment. This essay collection explores attitudes to colonialism, imperialism and race, as well as important developments in girlhood and the concept of the New Woman.
Rose Macaulay, Gender, and Modernity
Inbunden, 2017
2879 kr
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This book is the first collection on the British author Rose Macaulay (1881-1958). The essays establish connections in her work between modernism and the middlebrow, show Macaulay’s attentiveness to reformulating contemporary depictions of gender in her fiction, and explore how her writing …
Didactic Novels and British Women's Writing, 1790-1820
Inbunden, 2016
2879 kr
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Tracing the rise of conduct literature and the didactic novel over the course of the eighteenth century, this book explores how British women used the didactic novel genre to engage in political debate during and immediately after the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Although didactic …
Fictions of Dissent
Reclaiming Authority in Transatlantic Women's Writing of the Late Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2016
943 kr
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Fin-de-siècle fiction by British female aesthetes and American women regionalists stages moments of rebellion when female characters rise up and insist on the right to maintain control of their creations. Cordell asserts that these revolutionary acts constitute a transatlantic conversation about …
Celebrated Hannah Cowley
Experiments in Dramatic Genre, 1776–1794
Häftad, 2016
943 kr
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Hannah Cowley (1743–1809) was a very successful dramatist, and something of an eighteenth-century celebrity. New critical interest in the drama of this period has meant a resurgence of interest in Cowley’s writing and in the performance of her plays. This is the first substantial monograph study to …
Art and Womanhood in Fin-de-Siecle Writing
The Fiction of Lucas Malet, 1880–1931
Häftad, 2016
943 kr
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Lucas Malet is one of a number of forgotten female writers whose work bridges the gap between George Eliot and Virginia Woolf. Malet’s writing was intrinsically linked to her passion for art. This is the first book-length study of Malet’s novels.
Dying to be English
Suicide Narratives and National Identity, 1721–1814
Häftad, 2016
1060 kr
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This study examines the presentation of suicide within the genre of the eighteenth-century novel. Referencing several key writers of the period, McGuire demonstrates that their work inscribes a nationalist imperative to frame suicide as self-sacrifice.
Jane Austen's Civilized Women
Morality, Gender and the Civilizing Process
Häftad, 2016
943 kr
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Jane Austen’s six complete novels and her juvenilia are examined in the context of civil society and gender. Steiner’s study uses a variety of contexts to appraise Austen’s work: Scottish Enlightenment theories of societal development, early-Romantic discourses on gender roles, modern sociological …
Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity, 1889–1930
Av Sarah Parker
Häftad, 2016
943 kr
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Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male. This dynamic caused problems for late Victorian and twentieth-century women poets; how could the muse be reclaimed and moved on from the passive role of old? Parker looks at fin-de-siècle and modernist lyric …
Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country
A Reassessment
Av Laura Rattray, Laura Rattray
Häftad, 2016
943 kr
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Bringing together leading Wharton scholars from Europe, and North America, this volume offers the first ever collection of essays on Edith Wharton's 1913 tour de force, The Custom of the Country.
Let the Flowers Go
A Life of Mary Cholmondeley
Häftad, 2016
870 kr
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Giving a comprehensive critique of Cholmondeley's writings, Oulton analyzes the inspiration and influences behind some of her greatest work and provides an appealing biography on a writer whose work is of increasing interest to modern scholars.
Mary Cholmondeley Reconsidered
Av Carolyn W de la L Oulton, Carolyn W de la L Oulton m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
943 kr
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This book provides a necessary critical reappraisal of one of the most challenging and subversive of nineteenth-century women writers.
Victorian Settler Narratives
Emigrants, Cosmopolitans and Returnees in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Av Tamara S Wagner, Tamara S Wagner
Häftad, 2016
943 kr
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This edited collection from a distinguished group of contributors explores a range of topics including literature as imperialist propaganda, the representation of the colonies in British literature, the emergence of literary culture in the colonies and the creation of new gender roles such as ‘girl …
Winifred Holtby's Social Vision
'Members One of Another'
Av Lisa Regan
Häftad, 2016
943 kr
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Winifred Holtby (1898–1935) is best-known today for her friendship with fellow feminist and pacifist Vera Brittain and for her last novel, South Riding. This is the first monograph to provide a literary criticism of Holtby’s social philosophy and presents in-depth readings of all her major works as …
Ann Yearsley and Hannah More, Patronage and Poetry
The Story of a Literary Relationship
Häftad, 2016
943 kr
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This study offers a timely and necessary reassessment of the careers of Ann Yearsley and Hannah More. Making use of newly-discovered letters and poems, Andrews provides a full analysis of the breakdown of the two writers’ affiliation and compares it to other labouring-class relationships based on …
Mary Cholmondeley Reconsidered
Av Carolyn W de la L Oulton, Carolyn W de la L Oulton m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
1091 kr
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This book provides a necessary critical reappraisal of one of the most challenging and subversive of nineteenth-century women writers.
Mary Cholmondeley Reconsidered
Av Carolyn W de la L Oulton, Carolyn W de la L Oulton m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
1115 kr
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This book provides a necessary critical reappraisal of one of the most challenging and subversive of nineteenth-century women writers.
Let the Flowers Go
A Life of Mary Cholmondeley
E-bok, 2015
1029 kr
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Giving a comprehensive critique of Cholmondeley's writings, Oulton analyzes the inspiration and influences behind some of her greatest work and provides an appealing biography on a writer whose work is of increasing interest to modern scholars.
Let the Flowers Go
A Life of Mary Cholmondeley
E-bok, 2015
1029 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Giving a comprehensive critique of Cholmondeley's writings, Oulton analyzes the inspiration and influences behind some of her greatest work and provides an appealing biography on a writer whose work is of increasing interest to modern scholars.
Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country
A Reassessment
Av Laura Rattray, Laura Rattray
E-bok, 2015
1115 kr
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Bringing together leading Wharton scholars from Europe, and North America, this volume offers the first ever collection of essays on Edith Wharton's 1913 tour de force, The Custom of the Country.
Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country
A Reassessment
Av Laura Rattray, Laura Rattray
E-bok, 2015
1115 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Bringing together leading Wharton scholars from Europe, and North America, this volume offers the first ever collection of essays on Edith Wharton's 1913 tour de force, The Custom of the Country.
Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand
E-bok, 2015
856 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Colonial domestic literature has been largely overlooked and is due for a reassessment. This essay collection explores attitudes to colonialism, imperialism and race, as well as important developments in girlhood and the concept of the New Woman.
Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand
E-bok, 2015
856 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Colonial domestic literature has been largely overlooked and is due for a reassessment. This essay collection explores attitudes to colonialism, imperialism and race, as well as important developments in girlhood and the concept of the New Woman.
New Man, Masculinity and Marriage in the Victorian Novel
E-bok, 2015
956 kr
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By tracing the rise of the New Man alongside novelistic changes in the representations of marriage, MacDonald shows how this figure encouraged Victorian writers to reassess masculine behaviour and to re-imagine the marriage plot in light of wider social changes. She finds examples in novels by …
New Man, Masculinity and Marriage in the Victorian Novel
E-bok, 2015
956 kr
Lägg i varukorg
By tracing the rise of the New Man alongside novelistic changes in the representations of marriage, MacDonald shows how this figure encouraged Victorian writers to reassess masculine behaviour and to re-imagine the marriage plot in light of wider social changes. She finds examples in novels by …
Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity, 1889–1930
Av Sarah Parker
E-bok, 2015
1091 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male. This dynamic caused problems for late Victorian and twentieth-century women poets; how could the muse be reclaimed and moved on from the passive role of old? Parker looks at fin-de-siècle and modernist lyric …
Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity, 1889–1930
Av Sarah Parker
E-bok, 2015
1115 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male. This dynamic caused problems for late Victorian and twentieth-century women poets; how could the muse be reclaimed and moved on from the passive role of old? Parker looks at fin-de-siècle and modernist lyric …
