British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 1 : 1840s and 1850s / / edited by Adrienne E. Gavin, Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton

• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2018.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (293 pages)
• Disciplina: 820.99287
• Soggetto topico: Literature, Modern—19th century; Fiction; Poetry; British literature; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Poetry and Poetics; British and Irish Literature
• Persona (resp. second.): GavinAdrienne E; de la L. OultonCarolyn W
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction: Adrienne E. Gavin and Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton -- 2. ‘Pleasant, easy work, -& not useless, I hope’: Harriet Martineau as a Children’s Writer of the 1840s: Valerie Sanders -- 3. ‘Powerful beyond all question’: Catherine Crowe’s Novels of the 1840s: Ruth Heholt -- 4. Women in Service: Private Lives and Labour in Mary Howitt’s Work and Wages: Erin D. Chamberlain -- 5. Confronting the 1840s: Christian Johnstone in Criticism and Fiction: Joanne Wilkes -- 6. Jane Eyre, Orphan Governess: Narrating Victorian Vulnerability and Social Change: Tamara S. Wagner -- 7. ‘I was in the condition of mind to be shocked at nothing’: Losing the Plot in Wuthering Heights: Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton -- 8. Anne Brontë: An Unlikely Subversive: Kristin A. Le Veness -- 9. The Female Voice and Industrial Fiction: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton: Carolyn Lambert -- 10. The Age of the Female Novelist: Single Women as Writers of Fiction: Sharon Connor -- 11. ‘Excluded from a woman’s natural destiny’: Disability and Femininity in Dinah Mulock’s Olive and Charlotte M. Yonge’s The Daisy Chain: Clare Walker Gore -- 12. ‘The eatables were of the slightest description’: Consumption and Consumerism in Cranford: Anne Longmuir -- 13.‘There never was a mistress whose rule was milder’: Sadomasochism and Female Identity in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette: Abigail Boucher -- 14. Cultivating King Arthur: Women Writers and Arthurian Romance in the 1850s: Katie Garner -- 15. ‘[T]he work of a she-devil’: Sensation Fiction, Crime Writing, and Caroline Clive’s Paul Ferroll: Adrienne E. Gavin -- 16. ‘[Your novel] quite gives me a pain in the stomach’: How Paternal Disapproval Ended Julia Wedgwood’s Promising Career as a Novelist: Sue Brown -- 17. Adam Bede and ‘the green trash of the railway stall’: George Eliot and the Lady Novelists of 1859: Gail Marshall.
• Sommario/riassunto: This five-volume series, British Women’s Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, historically contextualizes and traces developments in women’s fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessing both canonical and lesser-known British women’s writing decade by decade, it redefines the landscape of women’s authorship across a century of dynamic social and cultural change. With each of its volumes devoted to two decades, the series is wide in scope but historically sharply defined. Volume 1: 1840s and 1850s inaugurates the series by historically and culturally contextualizing Victorian women’s writing distinctly within the 1840s and 1850s. Using a range of critical perspectives including political and literary history, feminist approaches, disability studies, and the history of reading, the volume’s 16 original essays consider such developments as the construction of a post-Romantic tradition, the politicization of the domestic sphere, and the development of crime and sensation writing. Centrally, it reassesses key mid-nineteenth-century female authors in the context in which they first published while also recovering neglected women writers who helped to shape the literary landscape of the 1840s and 1850s.
• Titolo autorizzato: British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 1
• ISBN: 3-319-78226-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910300030403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, . 2523-7160 ; ; 1