Writing women of the fin de siècle: authors of change

Writing women of the fin de siècle: authors of change

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Concentrating on a period of significant social and political change and exploring both canonical and newly rediscovered texts, this book critically assessthe changing culture of the late-Victorian period as represented by a range of women writers through a range of essays by leading academics in the field and cutting-edge work by newer scholars. ADRIENNE E. GAVIN is a Reader in English at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. Her publications include 'Dark Horse: A Life of Anna Sewell '(2004)and critical editions of Caroline Clive's' Paul Ferroll' (2008), Henry de Vere Stacpoole's 'The Blue Lagoon' (2010), and C. L. Pirkis's 'The Experiences ofLoveday Brooke', 'Lady Detective' (2010). She is co-editor of 'Mystery in Children's Literature' (2001) and 'Childhood in Edwardian Fiction' (2009). . CAROLYN OULTON is a Reader in Victorian Literature at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. Her publications include: 'Literature and Religion in Mid-Victorian England: from Dickens to Eliot' (Palgrave Macmillan 2003), 'Romantic Friendship in Victorian Literature' (Ashgate 2007) and 'Let The Flowers Go: a Life of Mary Cholmondeley' (Pickering & Chatto 2009). She is the co-editor of 'MaryCholmondeley Reconsidered' (Pickering & Chatto 2009). INDICE: Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Foreword; 'L.H.Peterson- ''She would Writeb&in Invisible Ink': An Introduction; 'A.E.Gavin' & 'C.W. de la L.Oulton - 'PART I: POETICS AND AESTHETICS - Re-Viewing Women Writers ofthe 'Fin de Siècle': Recent Critical Trends; 'L.Pykett - 'Sons of Fire and A Lost Eden: Expectations of Narrative and Protocols of Reading in Mary Braddon's 'Fin-de-Siècle' Fiction; 'G.Malcolm - ''The Method of Life we all Lead': Olive Schreiner's Short Fiction as Challenge to the Stage Method; 'S.Eggermont - ''Let Your Life on Earth Be Life Indeed': Aestheticism and Secularism in Mathilde Blind's 'The Prophecy of St. Oran' and 'On a Torso of Cupid'; 'S.Lyons - 'Editing Michael Field: Taking 'Fin-de-Siècle' Women's Poetry to a Broader Audience; 'M.Thain' & 'A.P.Vadillo - 'PART II: DOMESTICITY AND DEVIANCE - 'I am Not by Nature Domestic': Mary Cholmondeley and the Politics of Home; 'C.W. de laL.Oulton - 'Having a Good Time Single?: The Bachelor Girl in 1890s New Woman Fiction; 'E.Liggins - Fin-de-Siècle' Female Biographers and the Reconsideration of Popular Women Writers; 'J.Atkinson - ''I have Expiated my Sins to you at Last': Motherhood in Victoria Cross's Colonial Fiction; 'M.Purdue - ''C. L. Pirkis (not 'Miss')': Public Women, Private Lives, and the Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective; 'A.E.Gavin - 'III: GENDER AND THE BODY - The SeventhWave of Humanity: Hysteria and Moral Evolution in Sarah Grand's 'The HeavenlyTwins; N.Hetherington - ''A Queer Sort of Interest': Vernon Lee's Homoerotic Allusion to John Singer Sargent and John Addington Symonds; 'C.Maxwell - 'Under the Hill: The 'Man Question' in the New Woman Novels of Marie Corelli, Jessie Fothergill, and Mary Linskill; 'B.Ayres - ''Your Loving is Unlike Any Other': Romance and the Disabled Body in the Gothic Fiction of Edith Nesbit and Lucas Malet; 'K.A.Miller - 'Athletic Bodies Narrated: New Women in 'Fin-de-Siècle'Fiction; 'T.J.R.Collins - 'Index

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-34342-9
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 248
  • Fecha Publicación: 11/11/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés