Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 543 g
Reihe: Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture
Feminist Readings of Underread Victorian Fiction
Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 543 g
Reihe: Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture
ISBN: 978-0-8153-1292-5
Verlag: Routledge
This book includes essays on writers from the 1840s to the 1890s, well known writers such as Anne Bronte, Wilkie Collins and Bram Stoker, lesser known writers such as Geraldine Jewsbury, Charles Reade, Margaret Oliphant, George Moore, Sarah Grand and Mary Ward. The contributors explore important thematic concerns: the relation between private and public realms; gender and social class; sexuality and the marketplace; and male and female cultural identity.
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Chapter 1 Words on “Great Vulgar Sheets”, SusanMeyer; Chapter 2 At Home upon a Stage, JudithRosen; Chapter 3 Rewriting the Male Plot in Wilkie Collins's no name (1862), DeirdreDavid; Chapter 4 Silent Woman, Speaking Fiction, Laura HanftKorobkin; Chapter 5 Mrs. Oliphant, Miss Marjoribanks (1866), and the Victorian Canon, Joseph H.O'Mealy; Chapter 6 The Vampire in the House, TamarHeller; Chapter 7 Solicitors Soliciting, Jasmine YongHall; Chapter 8 Eliza Lynn Linton, Nancy FixAnderson; Chapter 9 Problems of A “Democratic Text”, WimNeetens; Chapter 10 Naturalism in George Moore's A Mummer's Wife (1885), JudithMitchell; Chapter 11 Joy Behind the Screen, Barbara LeahHarman; Chapter 12 Curious Dualities, JohnKucich; Chapter 13 Mapping the “Terra Incognita” of Woman, KateMcCullough; Chapter 14 “Transition Time”, JudithWilt; Chapter 15 Mobilizing Chivalry, Nancy L.Paxton;
the Underread John Sutherland Introduction Barbara Leah Harman and Susan Meyer Words on "Great Vulgar Sheets": Writing and Social Resistance in Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey (1847) Susan Meyer At Home Upon a Stage: Domesticity and Genius in Geraldine Jewsbury's The Half Sisters (1848) Judith Rosen Rewriting the Male Plot in Wilkie Collin's No Name (1862): Captain Wragge Orders an Omelette and Mrs. Wragge Goes into Custody Deirdre David Silent Woman, Speaking Fiction: Charles Reade's Griffin Gaunt (1866) at the Adultery Trial of Henry Ward Beecher Laura Hanft Korobkin Mrs. Oliphant, Miss Majoribanks (1866), and the Victorian Canon Joseph H. O'Mealy The Vampire in the House: Hysteria, Female Sexuality, and Female Knowledge in Le Fanu's "Carmilla" (1872) Tamar Heller Solicitors Soliciting: The Dangerous Circulations of Professionalism in Dracula (1897) Jasmine Young Hall Eliza Lynn Linton: The Rebel of the Family (1880) and Other Novels Nancy Fix Anderson Problems of a "Democratic Text": Walter Besant's Impossible Story in All Sorts and Conditions of Men (1882) Wim Neetens Naturalism in George Moore's A Mummer's Wife (1885) Judith Mitchell Joy Behind the Screen: The Problem of "Present-ability" in George Gissing's The Nether World (1889) Barbara Leah Harman Curious Dualities: The Heavenly Twins (1893) and Sarah Grand's Belated Modernist Aesthetics John Kucich Mapping the "Terra Incognita" of Woman: George Egerton's Keynotes (1893) and New Woman Fiction Kate McCullough "Transition Time": The Political Romances of Mrs. Humphry Ward's Marcella (1894) and Sir George Tressady (1896) Judith Wilt Mobilizing Chivalry: Rape in Flora Annie Steel's On the Face of the Waters (1896) and Other British Novels about the Indian Uprising of 1857 Nancy L. Paxton Contributors Index
