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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813486703321

Autore

Hipsky Martin

Titolo

Modernism and the women's popular romance in Britain, 1885-1925 / / Martin Hipsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2011

ISBN

0-8214-4377-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (339 p.)

Disciplina

823/.085099287

Soggetti

English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain

Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Popular literature - Great Britain

Books and reading - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contexts of popular romance, 1885-1925 -- Mary Ward's romances and the literary field -- Marie Corelli and the discourse of romance -- The women's romance and the ideology of form -- The imperial erotic romance -- Modernism and the romance of interiority.

Sommario/riassunto

Today's mass-market romances have their precursors in late Victorian popular novels written by and for women. In Modernism and the Women's Popular Romance Martin Hipsky scrutinizes some of the best-selling British fiction from the period 1885 to 1925, the era when romances, especially those by British women, were sold and read more widely than ever before or since.   Recent scholarship has explored the desires and anxieties addressed by both "low modern" and "high modernist" British culture in the decades straddling the turn of the twentieth century. In keeping with these new studies, Hipsky