1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBE600200037054

Titolo

Fallimento & crisi d'impresa : questioni giuridiche operative

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Piacenza : CELT

Descrizione fisica

v. ; 28 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Mensile

Sospesa dal 2009

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955583603321

Titolo

Silent voices : forgotten novels by Victorian women writers / / edited by Brenda Ayres

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2003

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024

ISBN

9798216014812

9786612407826

9781282407824

1282407821

9780313039317

0313039313

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Collana

Contributions in women's studies, , 0147-104X ; ; no. 200

Disciplina

823/.8099287

Soggetti

English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

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

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 (p. [225]-239) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. ""Not the Superiority of Belief, but Superiority of True Devotion"": Grace Aguilar's Histories of the Spirit; 2. The Victorian Heroine Goes A-Governessing; 3. The Detective Maidservant: Catherine Crowe's Susan Hopley; 4. Deathbeds and Didacticism: Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna and Victorian Social Reform Literature; 5. Class Counts: The Domestic-Professional Writer, the Working Poor, and Middle-Class Values in The Years That the Locust Hath Eaten and The Story of a Modern Woman

6. On the Face of the Waters: Flora Annie Steel and the Politics of Feminist Imperialism7. Re-reading the Domestic Novel: Anne Thackeray's The Story of Elizabeth; 8. ""I Am Not Esther"": Biblical Heroines and Sarah Grand's Challenge to Institutional Christianity in The Heavenly Twins; 9. Dinah Mulock Craik: Sacrifice and the Fairy-Order; 10. Marie Corelli: ""The Story of One Forgotten""; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Some of the greatest English novels were written during the Victorian era, and many are still widely read and taught today. But many others written during that period have been neglected by scholars and modern readers alike. A number of these novels were written by women and were popular when published. Moreover, they reveal perspectives of 19th-century British culture not present in canonized works and therefore revise our understanding of Victorian life and attitudes. With the increasing interest in revising Victorian history and gender scholarship, especially through the rediscovery of lost