04603nam 2200793Ia 450 991082539260332120240402135431.00-415-86206-X0-203-35920-81-134-94483-71-280-07187-7(CKB)1000000000254826(EBL)167885(OCoLC)252921589(SSID)ssj0000071070(PQKBManifestationID)11109841(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000071070(PQKBWorkID)10069224(PQKB)10000089(MiAaPQ)EBC167885(Au-PeEL)EBL167885(CaPaEBR)ebr10061002(CaONFJC)MIL7187(EXLCZ)99100000000025482619911114d1992 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe "improper" feminine the women's sensation novel and the new woman writing /Lyn Pykett1st ed.London ;New York Routledge19921 online resource (249 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-203-37596-3 0-415-04928-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-224) and index.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 Feminine7 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 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 Woman14 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; IndexThe 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'English fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismFeminism and literatureGreat BritainHistory19th centuryWomen and literatureGreat BritainHistory19th centuryEnglish fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismFemininity in literatureFictionAuthorshipSex differencesSensationalism in literatureSex role in literatureSex in literatureEnglish fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Feminism and literatureHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Femininity in literature.FictionAuthorshipSex differences.Sensationalism in literature.Sex role in literature.Sex in literature.823/.8099287Pykett Lyn456901MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825392603321The "improper" feminine4112627UNINA