the women's sensation novel and the new woman writing /
Lyn Pykett.
New York :
Routledge,
1992.
1 online resource (xi, 235 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and index.
pt. 1. The 'improper' feminine -- pt. 2. The sentimental and sensational sixties : the limits of the proper feminine -- pt. 3. Breaking the bounds : the improper feminine and the fiction of the new woman.
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The first comparative study of the women's sensation novel of the 1860s and the New Woman fiction of the 1890s, two genres which undermined the ideal of the `proper feminine' and dangerously put female sexuality on the literary agenda.
"Improper" feminine.
English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
English fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
Femininity in literature.
Feminism and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
Feminist fiction, English-- History and criticism.
Fiction-- Authorship-- Sex differences.
Sensationalism in literature.
Sex in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.