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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483707403321

Titolo

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-02721-X

Disciplina

809.034

Soggetti

Literature, Modern—19th century

Literature—History and criticism

History, Modern

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Literary History

Modern History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding of the importance of interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, there is a need to extend this campaign beyond literary studies in order to recognise the role of women writers across the nineteenth century, a time that was intrinsically interdisciplinary in approach to scholarly writing and public intellectual engagement. .