LEADER 04603nam 2200793Ia 450 001 9910825392603321 005 20240402135431.0 010 $a0-415-86206-X 010 $a0-203-35920-8 010 $a1-134-94483-7 010 $a1-280-07187-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000254826 035 $a(EBL)167885 035 $a(OCoLC)252921589 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000071070 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11109841 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000071070 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10069224 035 $a(PQKB)10000089 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC167885 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL167885 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10061002 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL7187 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000254826 100 $a19911114d1992 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 15$aThe "improper" feminine $ethe women's sensation novel and the new woman writing /$fLyn Pykett 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d1992 215 $a1 online resource (249 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-203-37596-3 311 $a0-415-04928-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-224) and index. 327 $aCover; 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 Feminine 327 $a7 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 Woman 327 $a14 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; Index 330 $aThe 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' 606 $aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFeminism and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFemininity in literature 606 $aFiction$xAuthorship$xSex differences 606 $aSensationalism in literature 606 $aSex role in literature 606 $aSex in literature 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFeminism and literature$xHistory 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFemininity in literature. 615 0$aFiction$xAuthorship$xSex differences. 615 0$aSensationalism in literature. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 615 0$aSex in literature. 676 $a823/.8099287 700 $aPykett$b Lyn$0456901 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825392603321 996 $aThe "improper" feminine$94112627 997 $aUNINA