the women's sensation novel and the new woman writing /
First Statement of Responsibility
Lyn Pykett.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1992.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xi, 235 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
"Improper" feminine.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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.