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Autore |
Pykett Lyn |
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Titolo |
The "improper" feminine [[electronic resource] ] : the women's sensation novel and the new woman writing / / Lyn Pykett |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992 |
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ISBN |
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0-415-86206-X |
0-203-35920-8 |
1-134-94483-7 |
1-280-07187-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism |
Feminism and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Femininity in literature |
Fiction - Authorship - Sex differences |
Sensationalism in literature |
Sex role in literature |
Sex in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-224) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; THE 'IMPROPER' FEMININE: The Women's Sensation Novel and the New Woman Writing; Copyright; Contents; Introductory note; Part I The 'Improper' Feminine; 1 Gender and writing, writing and gender; 2 The subject of Woman; 3 The subject of Woman and the subject of women's fiction; 4 Fiction and the feminine: a gendered critical discourse; 5 Fiction, the feminine and the sensation novel; 6 Representation and the feminine: engendering fiction in the 1890's; Part II The Sentimental and Sensational Sixties: The Limits of the Proper Feminine |
7 Historicising genre (1): the cultural moment of the woman's sensation novel 8 Surveillance and control: women, the family and the law; 9 Spectating the Social Evil: fallen and other women; 10 Reviewing the |
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subject of women: the sensation novel and the 'Girl of the Period'; 11 Historicising genre (2): sensation fiction, women's genres and popular narrative forms; 12 Mary Elizabeth Braddon: the secret histories of women; 13 Ellen Wood: secret skeletons in the family, and the spectacle of women's suffering; Part III Breaking the Bounds: The Improper Feminine and the Fiction of the New Woman |
14 The New Woman 15 The New Woman writing and some marriage questions; 16 Writing difference differently; 17 Feeling, motherhood and True Womanhood; 18 Woman's 'affectability' and the literature of hysteria; 19 Writing women: writing woman; 20 New Woman: new writing; Conclusion: reading out women's writing; Notes; Works referred to; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The women's sensation novel of the 1860's and the New Woman fiction of the 1890's were two major examples of a perceived feminine invasion of fiction which caused a critical furor in their day. Both genres, with their shocking, `fast' heroines, fired the popular imagination by putting female sexuality on the literary agenda and undermining the `proper feminine' ideal to which nineteenth-century women and fictional heroines were supposed to aspire. By exploring in impressive depth and breadth the material and discursive conditions in which these novels were produced, The `Improper' |
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