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UNINA9910462412603321 |
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Autore |
Foster Shirley |
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Titolo |
Victorian women's fiction : marriage, freedom and the individual / / Shirley Foster |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-58553-7 |
9786613897985 |
0-203-12053-1 |
1-136-32181-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature |
Victorian women's fiction : marriage, freedom and the individual ; ; v. 5 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Women in literature |
Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism |
Psychological fiction, English - History and criticism |
Social psychology in literature |
Marriage in literature |
Liberty in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published in 1985 by Croom Helm. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; New: Victorian Women's Fiction RLE; New: Copyright Page; Old: Victorian Women's Fiction RLE; Old: Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introductory: Women and Marriage in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England; 2. Dinah Mulock Craik: Ambivalent Romanticism; 3. Charlotte BrontХе: A Vision of Duality; 4. Elizabeth Sewell: The Triumph of Singleness; 5. Elizabeth Gaskell: The Wife's View; 6. George Eliot: Conservative Unorthodoxy; Select Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinised contemporary assumptions about their |
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