LEADER 03852oam 2200829I 450 001 9910785795603321 005 20230126205707.0 010 $a1-136-32180-2 010 $a1-283-58553-7 010 $a9786613897985 010 $a0-203-12053-1 010 $a1-136-32181-0 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203120538 035 $a(CKB)2670000000238033 035 $a(EBL)1016211 035 $a(OCoLC)809313950 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000742110 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11400773 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000742110 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10743754 035 $a(PQKB)11260034 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1016211 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1016211 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10596223 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL389798 035 $a(OCoLC)900237918 035 $a(OCoLC)811412030 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB135614 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000238033 100 $a20180706e20121985 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVictorian women's fiction $emarriage, freedom and the individual /$fShirley Foster 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) 225 0 $aRoutledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature 225 0 $aVictorian women's fiction : marriage, freedom and the individual ;$vv. 5 300 $aFirst published in 1985 by Croom Helm. 311 $a0-415-75230-2 311 $a0-415-52411-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront 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 Bront??: 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; Index 330 $aFocusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinised contemporary assumptions about their own sex, this book's critical interest in women's fiction shows how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial ideologies and the often more attractive alternative of single or professional life. In arguing that the tensions and dualities of their work represent the honest confrontation of their own ambivalence rather than attempted conformity to convention, it calls for a fresh look at patterns of im 410 0$aRoutledge library editions.$pWomen, feminism and literature. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPsychological fiction, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSocial psychology in literature 606 $aMarriage in literature 606 $aLiberty in literature 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPsychological fiction, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSocial psychology in literature. 615 0$aMarriage in literature. 615 0$aLiberty in literature. 676 $a823.8093543 700 $aFoster$b Shirley.$0688594 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785795603321 996 $aVictorian women's fiction$91235612 997 $aUNINA