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British women's writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury.

3319782266

9783319782263

3319782258

9783319782256

British women's writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury.

[Book]

Adrienne E. Gavin, Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton editors.

Volume 1,dollar51840s and 1850s /

Cham, Switzerland :

Palgrave Macmillan,

[2018]

1 online resource (301 pages)

British women's writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940 ;

Volume 1

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro; Acknowledgements; Series Introduction; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Part I; Chapter 1: Introduction; Women's Writing of€the€1840s; Women's Writing of€the€1850s; Works Cited; Chapter 2: 'Pleasant, easy work, -- & not useless, I€hope': Harriet Martineau as€a€Children's Writer of€the€1840s; Children's Literature of€the€1840s; Martineau in€the€1840s; Martineau's Child Heroes; Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 3: 'Powerful beyond all question': Catherine Crowe's Novels of€the€1840s; Works Cited; Chapter 4: Women in€Service: Private Lives and€Labour in€Mary Howitt's Work and€Wages.

Chapter 13: 'There never was€a€mistress whose rule was€milder': Sadomasochism and€Female Identity in€Charlotte Brontë's VilletteIntroduction; Sadomasochism in€Literature; Sadomasochism and€the€Woman Question of€the€1850s; Villette; Works Cited; Chapter 14: Cultivating King Arthur: Women Writers and€Arthurian Romance in€the€1850s; Works Cited; Chapter 15: '[T]he work of€a€she-devil': Sensation Fiction, Crime Writing, and€Caroline Clive's Paul Ferroll; Works Cited.

Chapter 16: '[Your novel] quite gives me a€pain in€the€stomach': How Paternal Disapproval Ended Julia Wedgwood's Promising Career as€a€NovelistWorks Cited; Chapter 17: Adam Bede and€'the green trash of€the€railway stall': George Eliot and€the€Lady Novelists of€1859; Works Cited; Index.

Chapter 9: The Female Voice and€Industrial Fiction: Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary BartonWorks Cited; Part II; Chapter 10: The Age of€the€Female Novelist: Single Women as€Authors of€Fiction; Works Cited; Chapter 11: 'Excluded from€a€woman's natural destiny': Disability and€Femininity in€Dinah Mulock's Olive and€Charlotte M.€Yonge's The Daisy Chain; Works Cited; Chapter 12: 'The eatables were of€the€slightest description': Consumption and€Consumerism in€Cranford; Works Cited.

Works CitedChapter 5: Confronting the€1840s: Christian Johnstone in€Criticism and€Fiction; Works Cited; Chapter 6: Jane Eyre, Orphan Governess: Narrating Victorian Vulnerability and€Social Change; '[M]en, women, and€governesses'; '[I]f she were a€nice, pretty child'; Updating the€'foul spectre'; Works Cited; Chapter 7: 'I was€in€the€condition of€mind to€be€shocked at nothing': Losing the€Plot in€Wuthering Heights; Works Cited; Chapter 8: Anne Brontë: An€Unlikely Subversive; Anne Brontë, Literary Sister; Anne Brontë, Social Observer; Works Cited.

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This five-volume series historically contextualizes and traces developments in women?s fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessing both canonical and lesser-known British women?s writing decade by decade, it redefines the landscape of women?s authorship across a century of dynamic social and cultural change. With each of its volumes devoted to two decades, the series is wide in scope but historically sharply defined. Volume 1 inaugurates the series by historically and culturally contextualizing Victorian women?s writing distinctly within the 1840s and 1850s. Using a range of critical perspectives including political and literary history, feminist approaches, disability studies, and the history of reading, the volume?s 16 original essays consider such developments as the construction of a post-Romantic tradition, the politicization of the domestic sphere, and the development of crime and sensation writing. Centrally, it reassesses key mid-nineteenth-century female authors in the context in which they first published while also recovering neglected women writers who helped to shape the literary landscape of the 1840s and 1850s.

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British women's writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury. Vol. 1: 1840s and 1850s.

9783319782256

1840s and 1850s

English literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.

Literature and history-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.

Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.

English literature-- Women authors.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Literature and history.

Women and literature.

Great Britain.

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LIT-- 004120

Gavin, Adrienne E.,1962-

Oulton, Carolyn,1972-

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