03788oam 2200805I 450 991046241260332120200520144314.01-283-58553-797866138979850-203-12053-11-136-32181-010.4324/9780203120538 (CKB)2670000000238033(EBL)1016211(OCoLC)809313950(SSID)ssj0000742110(PQKBManifestationID)11400773(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000742110(PQKBWorkID)10743754(PQKB)11260034(MiAaPQ)EBC1016211(Au-PeEL)EBL1016211(CaPaEBR)ebr10596223(CaONFJC)MIL389798(OCoLC)900237918(EXLCZ)99267000000023803320180706e20121985 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrVictorian women's fiction marriage, freedom and the individual /Shirley FosterAbingdon, Oxon :Routledge,2012.1 online resource (248 p.)Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literatureVictorian women's fiction : marriage, freedom and the individual ;v. 5First published in 1985 by Croom Helm.0-415-75230-2 0-415-52411-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexFocusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinised contemporary assumptions about their own sex, this book's critical interest in women's fiction shows how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial ideologies and the often more attractive alternative of single or professional life. In arguing that the tensions and dualities of their work represent the honest confrontation of their own ambivalence rather than attempted conformity to convention, it calls for a fresh look at patterns of imRoutledge library editions.Women, feminism and literature.English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismWomen in literatureWomen and literatureGreat BritainHistory19th centuryEnglish fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismPsychological fiction, EnglishHistory and criticismSocial psychology in literatureMarriage in literatureLiberty in literatureElectronic books.English fictionHistory and criticism.Women in literature.Women and literatureHistoryEnglish fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Psychological fiction, EnglishHistory and criticism.Social psychology in literature.Marriage in literature.Liberty in literature.823.8093543Foster Shirley.688594MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462412603321Victorian women's fiction1235612UNINA